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| hundreds & thousands / poetry in the landscape / writing on leaves / art on leaves / words on leaves / words and landscape/
numbering every leaf on a tree / Katsura, Ginkgo, willow, vine maple, japanese maple / every leaf held and touched and turned and numbered / 38,000 leaves numbered over the summer of 2000 / surrey art gallery bc canada |
| In small script, on leaves, throughout the gardens and forests of Bear Creek park,
I carefully printed poetic lines. The idea was for people to find them by chance, for there to be a sensual relationship between words and trees -- as Don McKay said, "We should be taking our poetry to the woods, reading it out loud to the trees." All of the poets and authors I quoted were very generous and freely gave me their permission to use and write their words. I want to thank them all for this, and especially for their writing and/or translations which have been so inspiring. Margaret Atwood William Blake Kate Braid Robert Browning Emily Carr Leonard Cohen Lorna Crozier Annie Dillard Athena George Thomas King Patrick Lane Don McKay Jalal Al Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) Diana Lynn Thompson Phyllis Webb Anne Wilkinson (permission granted by Alan G. Wilkinson) to realise so completely that you could utterly let go… -Emily Carr |
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