JESÚS OLMO

I found this video artist while browsing through vimeo and I thought this one was particularly haunting/beautiful. See more of his work on his vimeo page

THAT TREE

This is a video of that tree next to my apartment. It's two weeks condensed to twenty-two seconds.

GATHERING STICKS

My sister is planning a little installation for her final review in December. She wants to build a teepee for people to sit in before they look at her watercolors. We drove out to Bedford to collect tree branches from our grandparent's back woods. They treated us to homemade beef stew and corn bread. It was a foggy day. We saw fourteen turkeys.

I will post an update once she builds the teepee and wraps it in plaid fabric.

BARBARA BOSWORTH - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

The Live Sand Oak, 8x10

The Common Pear, 8x10

This morning Shane and I had a nice conversation about the influential presence of trees. The Gaelic druids believed that trees were spirits, and each tree had its own unique power. You can't blame 'em, as trees are some of the largest living things on the planet. So in photo class today, we looked at the National Champion series by Barbara Bosworth. All these trees are deemed by the American Forest's National Register of Big Trees, as the largest tree of its species. The tragic fact that I learned while researching the project was that many of these champions are often stripped of their title due to death by fire, disease or pests. According to sources, only three of these beauties remain from the original list taken in 1940.