Wood & paint
44″L x 44″W x 90″H
2013

This work is re-worked. It is a piece from my first year, but fit back into my current research. In thinking about wilderness as a state of mind, not only a place. A wandering tree with a billboard type sign gesturing toward the iconic Hollywood sign, a place of that can exist in the smallest and largest of places, in the edges of the unknown and unknowable. This piece is visually successful in its stance and gesture, the missing letter and white finish clearly allow for a blank-ness, yet there is specificity in its reference. What is not successful or could be pushed further is the size and scale. For this piece it is a start, but I would like to re-make it bigger. Where I am unsure, is, if this is a piece or a study for a piece, hence the title. In the next generation, the sign will be bigger and more incorporated in and with the tree part. The tree part will be larger and more aggressive at taking up space, and more tangled. I would also like the scale to change across the piece, have the branches go from large to small across the work.