Fracture
2026
6″ x 6″
Ponderosa bark, obsidian, smalti, used printer’s tar Latin fabric, teabag, stitching
$150
Old ponderosa log left at the edge of a parking lot. Drying, shrinking, bark detaching. Small cracks form along the rings remind me of tesserae in a mosaic. A fracture has developed across the diameter of the log. The once solid tree has splintered into many tiny wood tesserae, hanging together tentatively.
I see our world as this old log. Slowly tearing apart yet hanging together, even if by a thread. Where’s the optimism? In the forest, with all the seedlings of future generations.
Lynn Adamo