SMITHSONIAN
The Renwick Renewed
by Alex Palmer, November 12, 2015
“The making of these trees was so much in that spirit – in terms of dodging the ease of digital and instead doing this all by hand.”
He wanted to bring a 40-foot tree into the gallery. He had just the tree in mind—a 150-year-old hemlock located in the Cascade Mountains (east of the artist’s Seattle home). About the same age as the Renwick itself, and a size that would just fit into the gallery space if hung parallel to the floor, the grand old hemlock was ideal for the site-specific project Grade had in mind.
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