Point of Origin: 1650ish

A free standing work made from a rough timber, scarred with history, retrieved from the demolition of a wharf in Burrard inlet in 1983. The tree was logged in the Vancouver area approximately 120 years ago. There are roughly 250 years of annular rings in the end grain that date the germination for the young seedling around the year 1650. The work I have created here pays homage to that passage of time and history. Carved into the beautiful end-grain, is a smooth vortex, like a black hole down the core of the years of history, it looks into a past and a future that both implodes and explodes. The aluminum form both completes the outline of the trees life and the edge of the present time. It is a moment. A small clock mechanism is mounted deep down in the heartwood core. A mono-filament wire curves up and out and is attached to the second hand spline of the clock. It twitches its way around an imaginary event horizon suspended in the time/space continuum.

2008 Wood, aluminum and a clock mechanism

Private collection.