Dec from Lynne - Treewhispers

 

I'm 99% sure this is from Lynne. If I'm wrong - let me know. 

I'm living dangerously - and writing posts from memory - after I woke up in Chicago and realized that I had a ton of drafts without images.....

....so I am speed-posting.

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I have filled up January. I can take a breather while I head in to Chicago for a week. There is a hand made book place (Artists Book House) that has opened up very close to where I stay in Chicago. And even better - while I am there, they are having the opening of an exhibit of TreeWhisperers. 

A loooong time ago when I used to zip in to Chicago to take calligraphy workshops, I crossed paths with a Chicago artist, Pamela Paulsrud, who was collecting circles of paper that she would string into columns which would be hung indoors - to approximate tree trunks. I submitted a few and saw one of her  installations. 

Read all about it here:

https://treewhispers.com

Here is a better description from the website:

Treewhispers is an ongoing international collaboration that celebrates the connection between trees and humanity through handmade paper and artistic exploration. Participants contribute handmade paper rounds with personal memories, poems, images of tree rings, leaves or their beloved trees. These rounds, bound with bookbinding thread, form paper columns and create an ever-evolving forest of paper. As the project travels, it grows with new stories, new voices, and a collective reverence for nature.

There is an address at the website where you can send a paper circle - and I forgot all about the stories that people submit about trees. I should fill another blog post with more about Treewhispers. Maybe I will when I return from my expedition.

Maybe we should send a bunch of circles through the mail to Pamela... let me ponder that - or if you are impulsive - just go ahead and do it..... but, if you do - I think you should share your circle with the blog readers by sending me a photo, please and thank you.

Here is the place in Chicago that I hope to visit to see the Treewhispers exhibit:

https://www.artistsbookhouse.org