Driftwood
Photographs, maps, digital media; custom giclee on watercolor paper.
Photographs, maps, digital media; custom giclee on watercolor paper.
1. Driftwood 430 (Ganges Po)
2. Driftwood 439 (Jan-tse)
3. Driftwood 4417 (La Plata Donau Indus Elbe)
4. Driftwood 0389 (Lorenzo Euphrat)
5. Driftwood 455 (Weser Severn)
Details
Through macro images of driftwood collaged with maps of rivers, the Driftwood series twists earth, tree, river and root to expose connections between materials and processes at vastly different scales and time.
Lori Waxman, “Review: Ann Marie Schneider,” 60 wrd/min art critic vol. 2:
“Knotted, lined, ringed and rooted, trees have a special, long-tapped capacity to act as symbol. Oftentimes trees’ uprightness functions as a mirror of man’s fundamentally vertical nature, but in Ann Marie Schneider’s Driftwood digital prints, the trees lie supine, their dried, cracked surfaces spawning an inventive series of landscapes. Schneider takes close-up photographs of driftwood and turns them on their sides, thereby coaxing them into the role of land and earth, rolling hill and cavernous mountain. From these grounds spring trees, but trees grown of a similarly deft reorientation: from old maps Schneider has lifted those sinewy lines that signal long, snaking waterways. But here those tributaries become branches, their wavy sources now groping root systems that hug the undulating crust of the horizon’s surface. Thus a series of evocative connections arises between water and wood, forest and river, connections drawn through formal means – but really through the kind of uniquely human imagination that can turn a thing upside down and sideways, and thereby see it a new way. And there the pictures come full circle, using trees as means to speak of man.”
Through macro images of driftwood collaged with maps of rivers, the Driftwood series twists earth, tree, river and root to expose connections between materials and processes at vastly different scales and time.
Lori Waxman, “Review: Ann Marie Schneider,” 60 wrd/min art critic vol. 2:
“Knotted, lined, ringed and rooted, trees have a special, long-tapped capacity to act as symbol. Oftentimes trees’ uprightness functions as a mirror of man’s fundamentally vertical nature, but in Ann Marie Schneider’s Driftwood digital prints, the trees lie supine, their dried, cracked surfaces spawning an inventive series of landscapes. Schneider takes close-up photographs of driftwood and turns them on their sides, thereby coaxing them into the role of land and earth, rolling hill and cavernous mountain. From these grounds spring trees, but trees grown of a similarly deft reorientation: from old maps Schneider has lifted those sinewy lines that signal long, snaking waterways. But here those tributaries become branches, their wavy sources now groping root systems that hug the undulating crust of the horizon’s surface. Thus a series of evocative connections arises between water and wood, forest and river, connections drawn through formal means – but really through the kind of uniquely human imagination that can turn a thing upside down and sideways, and thereby see it a new way. And there the pictures come full circle, using trees as means to speak of man.”
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