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Birch
The large-scale charcoal drawing of Birch trees is rendered on drafting film, sliced into strips, and suspended. The strips sway slightly in response to air currents in the gallery while the translucency of the drafting film allows light to come through so they can be read from all sides. The drawings are detailed and complex, influenced as much by Japanese sumi-e ink painting as by the tenets of traditional drafting. The result is an invented form to articulate the language of trees and their fragility in the context of our current logging practices.