Falling From Together

Pressed London Plane tree with custom stainless steel support.

Pressing a tree turns it into a representation of itself, somewhere between image and object.

As raw material, trees are cut into slabs, planks and boards to essentially make a round thing square and flat, imparting a more manageable structure to its form. Pressing a tree similarly imparts a flat plane. The object is pressed back, becoming a kind of strange signifier of itself for a viewer to reencounter.