Tim Knowles

In an ongoing series, Tim Knowles attaches pens to the tips of branches of trees in various settings and allows the chance movement of the wind to dictate a composition. The resulting ‘tree drawings’ resemble spidery tumbleweeds that skitter across the paper, their scratchy lines and abstract blotting parodying the drawings of Jackson Pollock. Like Pollock, Knowles is more interested in process than form; but rather than process servicing the heroic figure of the artist (as it did with Pollock), Knowles uses it to relinquish authorial control, to release drawing from its enslavement to the artist’s hand. Through inventive, often playful techniques that recall the Surrealist experiments of Joan Miro, he introduces arbitrary and aleatory elements into the work’s creation. His intention is to make visible the trajectories of primordial and modern forces, whether the laws of physics at work within a car as it races around the Brands Hatch Circuit, or the path of a full moon’s reflection on unstill water.

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My Own Work

Consisting of 17 vibrant hornbeam trees formally planted in a grid pattern, at the heart of this landscape three trees will slowly rotate. In place of the familiar movement of shade according to the rotation of the earth around the sun, here shade migrates at an artificial speed, transforming the familiar patterns of the natural world into artificial creations.

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Katie Holten

Katie Holten

As art

A weeping cherry that had its roots accidentally but fatally damaged by construction workers, the leafless, luxuriantly branching tree, cut just above the roots, now stands on a flat base and rises 50 feet into the clerestory skylight that runs the length of the hall. Cables anchored to the gallery's brick walls hold the tree in place, and with a bit of study you can see how it was maneuvered indoors: the tree was carefully cut up with chainsaws and then reassembled, with heavy-duty bolts securing the V-shaped joints.

The sculpture is titled "One Art" after a poem about loss by Elizabeth Bishop, but its effects are multiple. First, there is the sheer physical presence. If you passed it in an ordinary outdoor space like Central Park, you would not give it a second glance; it is not an especially beautiful or remarkably big tree. But in a type of indoor setting where you rarely if ever encounter trees of this sort, it seems huge and infinitely complex. With its crusty bark; gnarly, serpentine limbs and profuse finer branches; and its presumably enormous weight, it gives you a feeling similar to that of being up close to an elephant or a whale.

Year Rings

Every year a tree gets thicker. In the spring a tree grows the most. During the summer the growing process will slow down. In the summer the tree will have a thick structure and it looks much darker. Because of the tree will go darker, the growing rings will show a lot better. The ring patron is different at every tree. You can count those rings and it will tell the age of the tree. Because of the grow of the cells there will added one ring a year. The shape of the ring will tell how fast the tree has grown, this depends on the temperature and rain.

A tree is a community

A tree is really caring. A tree can be older than 1000 years, and there even exist a tree who is 3500 year. It's amazing how a tree can survive for so long. The weather changes, and they will be cut off, but without this tree so many animals and insects wouldn't had a nice time on earth.

A tree is a community. So many animals and insects wouldn't survive without trees. It's a place were they can find their food, but also a place they can live.
Birds is one of the animals who lives of the branches. Their whole house is made by pieces of little branches and they could also find some food in the tree.