“Deviation” - art hidden in the forest, telling you to broaden your view and sharpen your senses.

 

The only way to discover the art pieces made by Anna Widén, is to look for the small differences. Is there something among the trees that has a different shape, a slightly variation of colour and texture? To sharpen the senses, looking for something that usually is not there, are both getting to know the forest better, but it is also a reminder of how we humans are altering and changing our environment. It gives us the question on whether these changes are benefits to us and for nature, and how we can use nature and it´s recourses without destroying it?

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Artist´s inspiration

 

The very special habitats that the forest makes at this specific cite, but also the installation made during the Aaseth-06 workshop in 2006 made inspiration for this work. Then a small part of a marsh was carved into a geometrical pattern and the small birches made nearly branchless. Now, as the pattern had disappeared, Anna Widén wanted to use the small tree trunks in a new artwork based on how the marsh beautifully had coloured the tree material. At the new cite, the rather thin trunks were formed to embrace the huger trees in this very different natural environment, nearly becoming a new part of the trees and distinct them selves as independent forms at the same time.

 

 

Materials

Birch tree trunks sculptured around lager fir trees in the Aaseth forest