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My mother told me about something she had learned
when she was a Girl Guide. That if you wanted
to know the size of a tree, she said to walk
away from it until you could just see the top
if you bend over and looked between your legs.
You would then be as far away from the tree
as its height. I took this practical geometry
as a starting point, attached myself to the
tree, and, from the distance equal to the height
of the tree walked anti-clockwise, moving closer
as the rope wound around the trunk, spilling
a spiral of blood & bone.
Paradise Tree. Materials
included: two old ropes and three bags of blood
& bone. Performed at the Northland Art Teachers
Conference in 1984. Photos by Bob Kilgour.
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