Harvest the Wind - Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Harvest the Wind
Creating Beauty out of Chaos
Harvest the Wind
• Fairchild Art Exhibit
– Sponsored by City National Bank
• Leonard & Jane Abess, Garden benefactors
• 20 local artists
– Selected from 80+ submissions
• Given honorarium by City National
• Choice of tropical hardwood planks
– From fallen trees in Arboretum
– Milled with WoodMizer sawmill
• Mandate: Take a year to create beauty out of
devastation
– Harvest for us this ill, dark wind
Harvest the Wind
Stephen Althouse
• LYSILOMA LATISILIQUUM
• Wild Tamarind
– Lysiloma latisiliquum
• White Pine & Paint
– Pinus strobus
• 58”h x 27”w x 18”d
• Braille inscription
– Pulvis et umbra sum
• I am dust and shadow
– Vanitas, vanitatum, onia
vanitas
• Vanity of vanities, all is vanity
M. Kate Borcherding
AFTER ANDREW, PALM SCENES No. 9
Les Cizek
• A BRIEF HISTORY
• Australian Pine
– Casuarina equisetifolia
• Mahogany
– Swietenia mahogani
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Brass
Quartz clock movement
4’h x 2’w x 14”d
“the 24-hour clock – a
metaphor for the slow
passage of time before the
storm hit”
Eliose Cook
• OPEN HEART
• West African Mahogany
– Khaya senegalensis
• Woman’s Tongue
– Albizia lebbek
• Graphics
• Found objects
• 58”h x 20”w x 1’d
Maggie Davis
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HURACAN DANCER
Hand colored relief print
Japanese paper
6’h x 2’w
“Language of Hurricanes”
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Eye
Path
Circulation
Tracking
Dan Dawes
• RESURGENCE
• West African Mahogany
– Khaya senegalensis
• Oil paint
• 5’h x 2’w
• “I wanted to enliven the
fragment of a destroyed tree
with the image of growth
and regeneration”
Reva Freedman
• SNAKE CHARMER
• Lancewood
– Nectandra coriacea
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Palm parts
Fiber
Found objects
4’h x 3’w
Beau Gillespie
• BENCH
• Jamaica Dogwood
– Piscidia piscipula
• Royal Palm
– Roystonea regia
• West Indian Mahogany
– Swietenia mahogani
• 3’h x 5’w x 2’d
Casimer T. Grabowski
• MEDIEVAL POISON CUP
• Logwood
– Haematoxylon campechianum
• Silver; Amethyst
• 8”h x 3”w
• “This tropical wood has been
a source of the prized dye …
for centuries. The freely
soluble brownish dye was
mordanted with ammonium
alum, which converted the
wood to a rich purple.”
James Herring
• UNTITLED
• West Indian Mahogany
– Swietenia mahogani
• 25”h x 14”w
• Here I step outside my
usual medium of clay. I
tried to maintain a similar
respect for the material, by
letting the process speak.
As for the image, … I asked
a question and this was the
response.”
Jewell
• WIND
• Podo
– Podocarpus sp.
• Silk Oak
– Grevillea robusta
• Natural materials
• 4 ½ ‘h x 4’w
William Noel
Koch
• WIND-BLOWN
• West African Mahogany
– Khaya senegalensis
• Haitian Yokewood
– Catalpa longissima
• Laurel Negro
– Cordia allidora
• 34”h x 34”w x 18”d
Barry Massin
• LITTLE THRONE
• Black Palm
– Normanbya normanbyi
• 17”h x 10”d
• Why a throne? The
hurricane was
overwhelming. I needed
to sit down.”
Rhonda Maria Morton
(Untitled)
Nancy Richter
(OPPOSITION)
Karen A. Rifas
• UNTITLED
• West African Mahogany
– Khaya senegalensis
• Brazil Beauty Leaf
– Calophyllum calaba
• Handmade paper
• 75”h x 52”w x 12”d
Neil Smith
• STORM SURGE
• Wild Tamarind
– Lysiloma latisiliquum
• Cuban Belly Palm
– spines
• 9”d x 8”h
Frank Verrili
• SUN TOTEM #4
– Study for 18-foot Totem
• Indian Elm
– Tectona grandis
• Teak base
– With carving waste
• 6’h x 7”w x 4”d
Stacy West
• BURGEONING
• Texas Ebony
– Pithecellobium flexicaule
• Silver
• 18”h x 12”w
• “Symbolic of regrowth,
… human hands work to
bring order from chaos
while nature replenishes
her beauty.”
Brenda Whittaker-Ramsey
• A-FRAME
• West African Mahogany
– Khaya senegalensis
• Concrete
• 6’h x 3’w
• Consisting of both natural and
industrial materials which need
each other to stand, the piece
asks that we nurture a
cooperation between these
forces – perhaps an essential
step toward complete recovery.”