Science Theme

INSPIRATION

Dendrochronology
http://ltrr.arizona.edu/about/treerings
http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/


Bryan Nash
Tree Ring prints

Mended spider web Nina Katchadourian
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php

Joan Jonas-Mirrors

Vivian Maier-reflected self portraits

How mirrors work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/mirror2.htm

Spirits are often associated with mirrors. Mirrors are covered out of respect for the dead during the Jewish mourning ritual of sitting shiva, but in many people in the U.S. also cover their mirrors when someone dies. According to superstition, a mirror can trap a dying soul.

Richard Coleman

COMPLETED

STATEMENT

Dendrochronology is the dating and study of annual rings in trees. The spacing and patterning can indicate how dry or wet a season was, if there was flooding, or a fire. Each year a tree leaves behind a mark of its experience.   I explored this passage of time by sewing man made tree rings. A slice from a tree trunk was hollowed out and used as the surrounding ring, juxtaposing the natural with the unnatural. The time spent can be seen when the thousands of stitches are examined. It is pinned to a wall with the wrinkles, bumps, and other imperfections.