Easter Art Trail at Charleston House.

Images and words pyrographed onto tree stumps, forming an open narrative:

The pyrography plates are used as printing block, left outdoors for viewers to find, collect, assemble and keep.

This form of an open book acts as an alternative method of disseminating artworks to the public.

Example of pyrography pieces used as plate-reliefs for rubbings.

Tammuz - The Tree Spirit The Easter Art Trail consists of imagery and text inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Frazer's The Golden Bough. The works features leaf-fairies, tree gods and root-creatures, relating to the theme of harvest, death and rebirth, referring to the Easter story, and also drawing upon an older myth of Tammuz/Adonis. The imagery and text is reinterpreted by members of the public and used as a starting point for people to create their own stories and make their own books. Sunday 12 April 2009 Each 'print' (rubbing) of the artwork varies according to the unique mark-making made by members of the public, who bring the images to life: Above: Horizontal pencil marks of Leaf-figure Flying, multidirectional marks of closed Leaf-figure and vertical pencil marks of walking leaf-figure Made by members of the public at Tate Modern. Rubbings made with crayons by children at Tate Modern.

Spiral Festival at Camden Art Centre

30th and 31st of August 2008

Extracts from a collection of poems were pyrographed onto tree stumps, using off-cuts of Anya Gallaccio's tree installation:

Visitors were invited to construct concrete poetry by creating rubbings from the letters, which were displayed in the gallery window:

Article from Camden New Journal:

The pyrography-wood-rubbing activity was part of Spiral Festival, a series of free public creative and theatrical workshops and events that explore themes around memory and forgetfulness, slow-time and shadow-play, in response to Anya Gallaccio's and Chantal Akerman's exhibitions.

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