Beechwoods Bark

I’m using photography as the main medium for the Beechwoods project.  I also want to see how other media can help to visualise the woods – posts in November 2016 and March 2017 used scans of leaves and recently I downloaded aerial pictures from Google Earth.  Today I tried bark rubbing.  This was not a great success.  I used architects’ tracing paper and rather hard cheap childrens’ wax crayons.  I shall try again – more flexible paper and softer crayons, or maybe pastel or charcoal, could work better.

 

 

The Collins Field Guide to trees describes the bark as, ‘Smooth, silvery-grey, often slightly roughened and less often with rippled patches or a fine network of ridges.’  This is true of the general impression given by the Beechwoods, but many trees are scarred by patches and fissures on the otherwise smooth surface.  Some, but not all, of these blemishes appear to be the result of people carving into the bark.  Rubbing ought to be a good way of capturing these runes (see also post 23rd September 2016).

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