Harvest the Wind. Creating Beauty out of Chaos

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1 Harvest the Wind Creating Beauty out of Chaos

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4 Harvest the Wind Fairchild Art Exhibit Sponsored by City National Bank Leonard & Jane Abess, Garden benefactors 20 local artists Selected from 80+ submissions Given honorarium by City National Choice of tropical hardwood planks From fallen trees in Arboretum Milled with WoodMizer sawmill Mandate: Take a year to create beauty out of devastation Harvest for us this ill, dark wind

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6 Stephen Althouse LYSILOMA LATISILIQUUM Wild Tamarind Lysiloma latisiliquum White Pine & Paint Pinus strobus 58 h x 27 w x 18 d Braille inscription Pulvis et umbra sum I am dust and shadow Vanitas, vanitatum, onia vanitas Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

7 M. Kate Borcherding AFTER ANDREW, PALM SCENES No. 9

8 Les Cizek A BRIEF HISTORY Australian Pine Casuarina equisetifolia Mahogany Swietenia mahogani Brass Quartz clock movement 4 h x 2 w x 14 d the 24-hour clock a metaphor for the slow passage of time before the storm hit

9 Eliose Cook OPEN HEART West African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis Woman s Tongue Albizia lebbek Graphics Found objects 58 h x 20 w x 1 d

10 Maggie Davis HURACAN DANCER Hand colored relief print Japanese paper 6 h x 2 w Language of Hurricanes Eye Path Circulation Tracking

11 Dan Dawes RESURGENCE West African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis Oil paint 5 h x 2 w I wanted to enliven the fragment of a destroyed tree with the image of growth and regeneration

12 Reva Freedman SNAKE CHARMER Lancewood Nectandra coriacea Palm parts Fiber Found objects 4 h x 3 w

13 Beau Gillespie BENCH Jamaica Dogwood Piscidia piscipula Royal Palm Roystonea regia West Indian Mahogany Swietenia mahogani 3 h x 5 w x 2 d

14 Casimer T. Grabowski MEDIEVAL POISON CUP Logwood Haematoxylon campechianum Silver; Amethyst 8 h x 3 w This tropical wood has been a source of the prized dye for centuries. The freely soluble brownish dye was mordanted with ammonium alum, which converted the wood to a rich purple.

15 James Herring UNTITLED West Indian Mahogany Swietenia mahogani 25 h x 14 w Here I step outside my usual medium of clay. I tried to maintain a similar respect for the material, by letting the process speak. As for the image, I asked a question and this was the response.

16 Jewell WIND Podo Podocarpus sp. Silk Oak Grevillea robusta Natural materials 4 ½ h x 4 w

17 William Noel Koch WIND-BLOWN West African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis Haitian Yokewood Catalpa longissima Laurel Negro Cordia allidora 34 h x 34 w x 18 d

18 Barry Massin LITTLE THRONE Black Palm Normanbya normanbyi 17 h x 10 d Why a throne? The hurricane was overwhelming. I needed to sit down.

19 Rhonda Maria Morton (Untitled)

20 Nancy Richter (OPPOSITION)

21 Karen A. Rifas UNTITLED West African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis Brazil Beauty Leaf Calophyllum calaba Handmade paper 75 h x 52 w x 12 d

22 Neil Smith STORM SURGE Wild Tamarind Lysiloma latisiliquum Cuban Belly Palm spines 9 d x 8 h

23 Frank Verrili SUN TOTEM #4 Study for 18-foot Totem Indian Elm Tectona grandis Teak base With carving waste 6 h x 7 w x 4 d

24 Stacy West BURGEONING Texas Ebony Pithecellobium flexicaule Silver 18 h x 12 w Symbolic of regrowth, human hands work to bring order from chaos while nature replenishes her beauty.

25 Brenda Whittaker-Ramsey A-FRAME West African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis Concrete 6 h x 3 w Consisting of both natural and industrial materials which need each other to stand, the piece asks that we nurture a cooperation between these forces perhaps an essential step toward complete recovery.