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| Angilee Wilkerson |
| Whats Found in the Woods |
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“Whats Found in the Woods” is a narrative box inspired by the Trinity River Green Belt Corridor. The edition contains ten boxes, the second of which has been returned to the natural setting of the Green Belt. Each box is made of wood, handmade paper, seeds, wax, pigment, and brass. Inside, a linen bundle is tied with braided animal tendons. In each bundle, daguerreotype-like images are displayed on the front side of brass plates. On the back of the plates are engraved the words, Absence, Presence and Alterity, responding to the title of the piece. I have wrapped box #2 in thick raw linen and placed it near a tree that serves as an evening gathering place for flocks of large scavenger birds. Having been planted in the woods, the box is given to its fate. Will the rain, wind, persistent insect devour-ation or animal curiosity re-appropriate the box into the natural world? Will a passerby, straying from the trail, find the piece? It is interesting to consider what kind of emotion the finding of a wrapped bundle might provoke. How does one react to an unidentified object placed out of context, without indicators, without recognizable associations or ascribed meanings?
The sublime beauty of the Trinity Corridor's foreboding thicket and meandering river, both dense with life and mystery, is for me a spiritualization of the senses.
Angilee Wilkerson
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