Everybody in the forest is forest
Clare Hewitt
A common adult oak is hundreds of thousands of leaves each year. If the leaves fall, their nutrients returned to the land to take care of the tree growing them, as well as other living things in the forest. “They have slander themselves every year,” said the artist Clare Hewitt. “These small symbols are taking place between all the forests.”
It makes Hewitt Oak leaves oak in five years At regular visits to a group of trees tipped inside the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, UK. In 2019, he began to spend time over there after reading the loneliness in areas of houses, suspicion of trees can hold lessons about the connection and sharing resources. After enough time spent with them, “You know them as you can identify a friend,” hezitt said.
He is not allowed to remove anything from ecosystem, so The forest became his studio: Every fallen leaf is placed on expired photo paper, then exposed to sunshine, before returning to oak wood. “Many photography process is a scientific process,” as the hewitt. “It’s real in time and light.”
Copies about a larger exhibition in thet art in Hewett Everybody in the forest is forestIn the gallery of the impression, Bradford, UK, until 23 August, where they appeared with other work from the woods, including a book made of hand, books made Panamas base of mushrooms and plant-based inks.
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