Dendrochronology reads time as accumulation. Each ring within a cross-section records a year: drought, abundance, fire or frost embedded permanently... Read More
Dendrochronology reads time as accumulation. Each ring within a cross-section records a year: drought, abundance, fire or frost embedded permanently into the structure of growth. The tree does not remember. It simply carries.
At the centre of this painting, a white bird is held within the rings. It is not caged. Nothing external holds it in place. The growth surrounding it has simply closed, layer by layer, until movement is no longer available within the form the tree has taken.
Rings examines the difference between continuity and freedom. The structure grows. The archive deepens. What once moved through the system freely finds, one year at a time, that it no longer can.
