Roots of Yggdrasil
I haven’t posted for a while - with the holidays and all. And skiing! Got to put all that snow to good use. Also major problems with posting pictures to the blog - we changed servers and pictures just don’t post the way they used to.
That doesn’t mean I haven’t been creating (but not necessarily finishing). The best way to fight off the winter blues is, of course, to start something new. I just happened to have a box of toilet paper rolls that I had been saving for a rainy day, also some white glue and tie dye rags - voila- the Roots of Yggdrasil.
Because the toilet paper tubes are all the same dimension, there is a natural harmony in the design of this piece. After I constructed the main branches I tried to build up the piece by a system of creating a branch of two tubes, then adding a single tube to one of the resulting branches and another branch to the other. In this way the piece would be built up in units of three, which because we have three bathrooms, I invisioned the toilet paper tubes arriving in sets of three. The combination of this algorhythm plus a random, unthinking approach would mimic nature. Afterall, what is more beautiful than a tree. Well, not all trees are actually beautiful; you have to sample many to get something that could be considered art; and I only have time, energy and toilet paper tubes for one Yggdrasil.
In Nature some pruning of weak or under-utilized branches would also be occuring, so I pulled of some branches and rearranged a bit for a more open structure. Some of the branches joined one another, so the work began to take on a more placenta-like appearance… (more tomorrow)
