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RED ASH
, 2007, BY BRYAN NASH GILL
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Logging On
Woodcut
meditates
on the inner beauty of trees
Usually when you say something is “wooden,”
unless you mean it’s literally made of wood you’re
calling it stiff, lifeless, uninteresting. But for his
new book,
Woodcut
, Connecticut artist Bryan
Nash Gill has taken hunks of rawwood and
transformed them into something extraordinary.
His prints can resemble leaves, shells, countries,
galaxies; they can be sobering, inspiring or
vertiginous. Even more striking, as writer Verlyn
Klinkenborg puts it in the introduction, is the
commentary they provide on time—both arboreal
and human. “Things would be very different if we
absorbed time the way trees do,” he muses, “with
such structural integrity, such an uncanny ability
to preserve the year that’s just escaped but also to
fold it away out of sight.”
out now
THE
MONTH
AHEAD