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| In 2001 I went to a remote corner of northern BC with a plan. I wanted to see
If I could make a work of art with only my hands and what I found around me – nothing else. What I found were spruce cones, thousands of them. I spent three weeks gathering and carefully placing cones around five White Spruce trees. On one of my days off I hiked to the Llewellyn Glacier. The way the ice flowed through the valleys influenced the way I arranged the cones streaming around the trees. When it was finished, I gathered some people around to view it, documented it, then left it for the squirrels. |
spruce Picea glauca |
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| apprx. 20’ x 14’ |
| thousands of spruce cones |