{"id":76,"date":"2017-07-31T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2022-01-04T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:21:49","slug":"wood-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/portfolio\/wood-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

We use wood for nearly everything – to build our homes and our furniture, to keep us warm in winter and on cold nights around the campfire. We use it to make paper, grape stakes, fences, matchsticks, grocery bags, cardboard…and the list goes on. Yet, wood can also give us insight into a past that stretches far beyond our own histories. Each piece of wood tells a story, recording time and events in the form of scars, weathering and growth. The marks and rings of the Hunting Stump, a nearly 3000 year old, giant sequoia chronicle drought, fire, earthquakes, pestilence, and conclusively, human penetration in the form of a logging operation aimed at the manufacturing of grape stakes and matchsticks. The cross-section of Douglas Fir, depicted in Portrait of a Survivor, relays a saga of human contact through its bark peel scars, bullet hole wound, and finally its death as a victim of a fire-thinning project. The stumps of the Bear Springs timber sale tell their own story, as does the wood used for fire in the Gila Wilderness – the latter, speaking through its incarnation as a charcoal drawing. This work is an attempt to recognize the vital, utilitarian role wood plays in our existence, while at the same time, paying homage to the lives and stories of these trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Homage to Converse Basin, 2009<\/span>
Charcoal on grape stakes<\/span>
84″ x 180″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Homage to Converse,\u00a0<\/span>detail<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2749 Years for Matchsticks, 2008<\/span>
graphite on matchbooks<\/span>
5.5″ x 182″ x .75″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2749 Years for Matchbooks<\/span>
detail 1<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2749 Years for Matchbooks<\/span>
detail 2<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hunting Stump Grape Stake, 2008<\/span>
Installation Shot<\/span>
(photograph by Matthew Marston)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hunting Stump Fraiser Mill (radius), 2006<\/span>
charcoal on redwood<\/span>
10″ x 90″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grape Stake – Hunter Lumber (Merchantable), 2006<\/span>
charcoal on redwood<\/span>
10″ x 90″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ghost of Bear Springs I, 2008<\/span>
graphite rubbing on paper<\/span>
41″ x 36″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ghost of Bear Springs Timber Sale II, 2008<\/span>
graphite rubbing on paper<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Firewood Gila Wilderness, October 2006-2008<\/span>
charcoal on paper with charcoal from firepit <\/span>
116″ x 42″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Firewood, 2008<\/span>
Still shot of video projection<\/span>
23 minute video<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumber Artists Book, 2006<\/span>
Handmade Artists Book <\/span>
116″ x 24″ x .75″ when open<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumber Artists book cover and page<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Portrait of a Survivor (1808-2000), 2007<\/span>
oil on plywood<\/span>
31″ x 32.5″ x 3″<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We use wood for nearly everything – to build our homes and our furniture, to keep us warm in winter and on cold nights around the campfire. We use it to make paper, grape stakes, fences, matchsticks, grocery bags, cardboard…and the list goes on. Yet, wood can also give us insight into a past that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"parent":36,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}