{"id":1109,"date":"2009-09-26T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/the_tree_you_know_the_tree_you\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:15:11","slug":"the_tree_you_know_the_tree_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/the_tree_you_know_the_tree_you.html","title":{"rendered":"The trees you know; the tree you don&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trees you know are <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=roxy+paine&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS283US285&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=mmwDSsGiC4jaswOAwN3cAQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;resnum=4&amp;ct=title\">Roxy Paine<\/a>&#8216;s. They&#8217;re all over the place, including at the Seattle Art Museum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/visit\/OSP\/AboutOSP\/default.asp\">Olympic Sculpture Park<\/a>. (Image via SAM)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"roxiepainesam.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/roxiepainesam.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"862\" width=\"359\" \/><\/span>The tree you&#8217;re less likely to know:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamcontemporary.blogspot.com\/\">Chris Sicat<\/a>, <i>Redwood Tree Top<\/i> <i>(Tag a Log)<\/i> 2009, Graphite on redwood, 14 feet tall (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/swarmgallery.com\/index.htm\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ChrisSicattree.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ChrisSicattree.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"495\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span>Sicat hand-colored a 14-foot Redwood log with pencil, which he intends as a dialogue between two natural elements: (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otis.edu\/alumni\/onews\/index_3_09.html\">Otis<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I begin with looking at the wood form and the flow of the grain. I smoothen the wood to prep the drawing surface, which is a paradox in that it is a sculpture that is being imagined. At this point, I start to see a non-linear narrative script written out&#8230;. and this is where the moments of undefined deuce begins&#8230; a buzzing of the electric pencil sharpener&#8230; the scratching of the needle point of a soft graphite pencil onto a hard redwood log. The music plays&#8230;. miles and miles and miles of Miles Davis, lines after lines after lines til there is an infinite of graphite fibers making a collective mass&#8230; the grains finds their moment to rise and descend&#8230; the sounds of contemporary chamber music, Erik Satie, Hank Williams, Chemical Brothers, Scott Joplin and Snoop Dog&#8230; the crescendo brings the form of the woods and I find quiet moments in the knots and grooves&#8230; the hand plots to contemplate&#8230; concentrate&#8230; and converse back to nature&#8230; All this happens in between the engagement of the tag and the log.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trees you know are Roxy Paine&#8216;s. They&#8217;re all over the place, including at the Seattle Art Museum&#8217;s Olympic Sculpture Park. (Image via SAM) The tree you&#8217;re less likely to know: Chris Sicat, Redwood Tree Top (Tag a Log) 2009, Graphite on redwood, 14 feet tall (Image via) Sicat hand-colored a 14-foot Redwood log with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}