Cameron Lasson



Taxidermy Tree

3 levels of abstraction of a birch tree

First birch bark was foraged from fallen trees in a massachusetts state park. Then the bark was cut into squares and laminated onto plywood using a vacuum bag. Then the plywood was cut and joined with miters. The legs are from birch heartwood lumber and milled and joined using mortise and tenon and screwed to the plywood seat.

“ One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth. ” - Old alchemical verse

Birch bark, Birch plywood, Birch Heartwood


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