STILL ALIVE (2008)
These photographs are from a circle of chopped-off tree logs in my local park. Supposedly dead, fallen, uprooted, these trees continue to nourish life processes and to be responsive to the passage of seasons; lichens grow on them, insects burrow in their bark, paying testimony to the resilience of nature and revealing a continuity between the organic and the inorganic and the animate and the inanimate.
What might initially look like aerial landscapes, reminiscent of roughed rocky coastlines or reptile skin, are in fact close-ups of 'still lives', miniature universes that defy easy distinctions between dead and alive.
What might initially look like aerial landscapes, reminiscent of roughed rocky coastlines or reptile skin, are in fact close-ups of 'still lives', miniature universes that defy easy distinctions between dead and alive.
