“Nature. Culture. Natural culture, cultural nature. An aging dialectic.
A story in the round.
The bare boughs of an ancient Linden tree wait, against the sky.
Trees in forests will be cut. The timber moved on.
The City of Venice is held, supported, by poles, piles, that were once Alder trees.
Alnus glutinosa, a short lived tree. Those under Venice, cut long ago, have been there for centuries.
Curtains in the Palazzo Ducale do little but stop the sun from burning the symbolic interior.
Beyond is Venice.
Young people in a group learn as one stands apart.
The wider valley dwarfs them, the Linden lessened by distance.”
– Carl Warner
Image: Moving Towards Silence #3 2024, archival pigment on cotton paper, 100 x 125 cm
