Ellen Sayers |
by Jeanne C. Wilkinson |
It is a simple enough conceit, winding twine around tree trunks, a type of environmental or earth art,
nothing particularly new, but marvelously effective nonetheless. The trunks become thicker, lumpier
where the twine winds around their circumferences. Some areas of color are low on the tree, some
higher; all are both organic additions to the tree form and shocking intrusions into our expectations of
what a tree is. But ultimately words cannot convey the effect of the colors as they fight and merge with
each other in this springtime display.
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