Layers of silk are hand-burned with a soldering iron, tracing the image of a cross-section of a two-year-old Ponderosa pine seedling. Holes burnt through multiple layers of silk correspond with tracheates, or passageways within a plant’s stem column that transport water.
In collaboration with University of Montana plant physiologist Gerard Sapés.
Ponderosa
Silk and digital projection installation, 2017.
Layers of silk are hand-burned with a soldering iron, tracing the image of a cross-section of a two-year-old Ponderosa pine seedling. Holes burnt through multiple layers of silk correspond with tracheates, or passageways within a plant’s stem column that transport water.
In collaboration with University of Montana plant physiologist Gerard Sapés.