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Washington Convention Center
North Galleria, Floor 2
Seattle, WA
JAN 15 - MAR 29
7 AM - 10 PM Daily
"There
are probably as many paintings, photographs and sculptures of trees as there
are trees. But many trees meet fates not so frequently portrayed: harvested and
shipped to other markets, conserved for biological benefit and recreation,
subjected to forest fires or windstorms and so lost to the use of humans and
other species, milled and turned into functional products, and so forth.
The Meaning of Wood provokes
thinking beyond individual tree portraits into the process and significance
of trees becoming wood. It is a paradox of our language that “woods” means a
living forest and “wood” means the material of products and commerce. Our
language is permeated by tree metaphors – a problem has its “roots,” software
programs have “branches,” railroads have “trunk” lines, we ourselves are “stiff
as boards” or we “slept like logs.....”
--Suze
Woolf
