Marlaina Read


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A forest


2019
Chromogenic prints from negative, paint. Fabric dyed with moss, herbs, leaves and bark. Wood frame. Icelandic wool.

Exhibited at Kiosk Project Space, Nida, Lithuania.
Installation of a frame with two textile pieces, that were dyed with moss and bark. On one of them I used a laser cutter to etch special generated unicode. 

I am trying to make sense of a forest. Not a particular forest, but an idea of a forest. I want to make a monument to a forest, with hidden symbols, colours, smells.

I started with an image of a dust of snow on a tree. The snow is impermanent. Like a forest. Like any language I use to describe it.

A forest is vast. My monument is simple, contained. Personal. Domestic. A forest is contained. I am vast.

冫ɿ⇂ɿɿɿɿɿɿɿյɿɿɿ

  ɿɿɿ  ↡ɿɿ↷ɿՐɿⶒɿ

  ⇟Ì Ր✢ ɿɿɿɿɿɿɿɿ

ɿ ɭɿɿ⇑ɿɿɿↆɿ ↓




Installation images by Julija Navarskaitė and Andrej Vasilenko.

The patron of the project is Andrius Tamaliūnas.