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Summer and Fall
This new series has grown out of Chasing Light.
Randy Nutt
November 8, 2014
Miami, FL
New addition to the series: 5 Burned Trees
How? Carol and I visited the station several years ago. We were walking through a burned field and all these markings started showing on our clothes. I thought, wow, I would like to run through here with a blank piece of paper, to see what happens. Note to self: Next time I come here I want to try something.
[Next time was January 2015, click to watch video].
What? I use white layout paper mostly. It's thin enough to have some translucence but pretty durable. I have 8 individual rubbings from trees. 3 of them pretty much stand on their own, visually. The other 5 are fine by themselves and interesting but sparse. So, I thought I would layer them.
Using them in random order, as they came back from the field, I passed each one under an 18x24" piece of layout and traced them. The first 2 I assigned the color Black. The other 3, Green, Pink and Gray. I put in some Light Blue framing lines to indicate the image was being manipulated by a Human.
What 2? As you know, the public, generally has a bad feeling about fire. When Carol told me about how important fire is for the native plants of south Florida, I was amazed. Fire, in this case, is about renewal, rebirth, new life. That's a very beautiful thing. So, I thought, lets see what the plants and their markings have to say about it. As you can see, they think it's fine.
-- R. Nutt in a letter to Jennifer Brown of Archbold Biological Station (3/17/16)
This new series has grown out of Chasing Light.
Randy Nutt
November 8, 2014
Miami, FL
New addition to the series: 5 Burned Trees
How? Carol and I visited the station several years ago. We were walking through a burned field and all these markings started showing on our clothes. I thought, wow, I would like to run through here with a blank piece of paper, to see what happens. Note to self: Next time I come here I want to try something.
[Next time was January 2015, click to watch video].
What? I use white layout paper mostly. It's thin enough to have some translucence but pretty durable. I have 8 individual rubbings from trees. 3 of them pretty much stand on their own, visually. The other 5 are fine by themselves and interesting but sparse. So, I thought I would layer them.
Using them in random order, as they came back from the field, I passed each one under an 18x24" piece of layout and traced them. The first 2 I assigned the color Black. The other 3, Green, Pink and Gray. I put in some Light Blue framing lines to indicate the image was being manipulated by a Human.
What 2? As you know, the public, generally has a bad feeling about fire. When Carol told me about how important fire is for the native plants of south Florida, I was amazed. Fire, in this case, is about renewal, rebirth, new life. That's a very beautiful thing. So, I thought, lets see what the plants and their markings have to say about it. As you can see, they think it's fine.
-- R. Nutt in a letter to Jennifer Brown of Archbold Biological Station (3/17/16)
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