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Trees have been a constant in my work, especially the bare branches of winter trees. A few years ago, I visited the Body Worlds exhibit where I saw a man, woman and child made only of their plasticized veins. I was immediately struck by the resemblance of the circulatory system to the tree forms that had always interested me. I started thinking about how the same forms, essentially systems of distribution and collection, occur all around us in geology (river systems and deltas), transportation (road & railroad systems), botany (branches and roots) and physiology (lungs, nervous system and circulatory system). This exhibit seeks to explore the universality of branching systems of distribution and collection, especially how they relate visually to the “tree” form.

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