{"id":82,"date":"2017-07-31T19:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:27:08","slug":"tree-drawings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/portfolio\/tree-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a resident of the West, I am surrounded by trees. I hike between them, ride my bike through them, and sit under them to catch solace from the summer heat. I feel connected to them, and that is why I began to draw them. Pencil and drawing pad in hand, I would set off to find the tree and then I would sit…and draw – sometimes for 12 hours – adding sheets of paper as the graphite tree essentially grew. It wasn’t until then that I began, and only began, to understand them as individuals. Sitting for nine hours with a pinyon allowed me to observe the way the sun cast its light on the tree and therefore grasp why it favored growth in a particular direction. While attempting to draw a gnarled juniper on Muley Point, I, like the tree, was a victim of ferocious winds blowing off the mesa and understood why the tree was so twisted and wild. Sitting in a clearing cut by logging trucks I drew a ponderosa, observing the spray-painted mark on its trunk and became blatantly aware of its destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These drawings are portraits. Their subjects, great sages.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juniper – Muley Point<\/em>, UT,<\/em> 2005<\/em>
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Juniper – Cedro Canyon, NM<\/em>, 2005<\/em>
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Ponderosa – Cebolla Canyon, NM,<\/em> 2005<\/em>
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Spruce – Cottonwood Canyon<\/em>, UT,<\/em> 2004
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Pi\u00f1on – Cebolla Canyon, NM,<\/em> 2005<\/em>
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Juniper – Aztec, NM,<\/em> 2005<\/em>
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Ponderosa – Fire Point<\/em>, AZ, 2004
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Pi\u00f1on, Muley Point, UT,<\/em> 2004
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As a resident of the West, I am surrounded by trees. I hike between them, ride my bike through them, and sit under them to catch solace from the summer heat. I feel connected to them, and that is why I began to draw them. Pencil and drawing pad in hand, I would set off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392,"parent":36,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","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\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/1313"}],"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\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikaosborne.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}