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Across cultures and centuries, the forest has occupied a unique place in our collective imagination. Sylvania, by Brooklyn-based photographer Anna Beeke (born 1984), explores the intersection of nature, imagination and myth in the American woodlands, from Washington to Vermont to Louisiana.Anna Beeke is a documentary and fine arts photographer born in Washington, DC, and based in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video, and Related Media (2013) and a Certificate from the International School of Photography in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (2009), as well as a BA in English from Oberlin College (2007). Anna’s work has been exhibited internationally. Anna has received such honors as the 2012 Humble Arts and WIP-LTI/Lightside Materials Grant, the 2013 APA/EP Education Grant, the Alice-Beck Odette Scholarship and Alumni Scholarship Award from the School of Visual Arts, and the 2012 Film Grant from Kodak + too much chocolate. She was selected as a participant in th Eddie Adams Workshop 2009. Most recently, she was selected for Magenta's Flash Forward 2013. Anna is represented by Uprise Art.
SylvaniaFrom Daylight Books- Amazon Sales Rank: #1892317 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70" h x 7.30" w x 10.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 132 pages
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Type of Excerpt: Contributing Text and AcknowledgmentsSYLVANIAby Anna Beekewith words by Brian DoyleYou could walkinto the woodsanywhere, any sortof woods, everysort of woods, andyou would be adifferent animalwithin ten steps,as soon as thewoods acceptedyou, as soon asyou couldn’t hearanything else butthe woods. Weforget that thewoods are alwaysthere waiting. Weare afraid of thewoods and welove the woodsand we usedto live in thewoods and somepart of us is stillfascinated andfrightened andabsorbed andmesmerizedand yearningsecretly forthe woods. Isuppose therewill always bewoods in ussomehow untilthere are nomore woods orno more us. We camefrom them as if froma tangled green seaand the parts of usthat are still mammalare most comfortablethere. We forget weare mammals. Youcould walk into thewoods anywhereand you would bedifferent within aminute or two –rattled, happier,muddier, cautious,more alert, home insome way for whichwe do not yet have anexcellent green word.The densest place I have ever been in my whole life is deep in the woods here. One time Istood on what I thought was a small hillock but it turned out to be duff ten feet deep. Therewas a rumor of cougar. Of course it was raining. Of course it was. I sat down for a whileand thought about all the languages that were being spoken and had been spoken in thisone moist incredible place in the world, all the creatures of every kind who had lived hereor passed through this space, the uncountable insects, the children, the young ones of everyspecies. Had they gaped too, at the pillars of the trees, the bear print, the murmur of owls?One of my sixbrothers fell in lovewith wood right fromthe start. I rememberhim handling andfondling woodeven when he waslittle. He spoke thelanguage of it. Heand wood liked eachother and got alongswell. He became aforester and plantedtrees, hundreds ofthousands of trees.Do you know youcan plant a tree infive seconds if youget your stride rightand reach with onehand and poke ahole in the skin ofthe earth and reachup for the seedlingfrom your packwith the other anddrop the seedlingand secure it in thehole with your footas you continue onapace? You can dothat. In some placesthe woods are takingover where farmsused to be. Thatis happening inVermont and Maine.When the woodscome back so doanimals that werethought long gone,like fisher and lion.All the rest of hislife my brother hasworked with wood.He built houses andbeds and chairs andtables and desksand cabinets andcounters and lovelylong curving tavernbars and prettymuch anything elseyou can imagineyou could persuadefrom wood. In hiswood-shop there arechunks of twentykinds of wood.One time I askedhim what he wasgoing to do with aparticularly weightychunk and he saidhe was waiting forthe wood to tell himwhat it wanted tobe. I think aboutthat remark a lotand always comeaway refreshed bythe respect andhumility in it. Moreand more these daysI think humility isthe final frontier.We spend manyyears building egoand then if we arelucky we realizewe need to cut itdown and saw itup and turn it intosomething shy.Q: Do trees think and feel?A: Of course not, not in any way that we know the words think and feel. But that’s the point, isn’t it? I suggest that they consider and ponder and absorb and apprehend the world in very different ways than we do, and we do not quite understand the verb of their lives. We think of them as nouns, stationary, serene, placid, substantive, stolid, stern; but imagine if you could absorb nutrition from the very earth with your intricate spidery toes. Imagine that you could eat light and sip clouds. Imagine if you too lived to be five thousand years old, like bristlecone pines, or were four hundred feet tall, like redwoods, or weighed a thousand tons, like sequoias, or spent your life on a ridge above the lithe Wilson River as it made its way toward mother Ocean. How does the tree perceive the river? Like an ouzel that never stops singing? How does the tree consider its companions? Do their roots tangle and tease? What do they feel? Because we cannot understand how they could feel, does that mean that they do not feel? If you do not know a thing, does that mean the thing is impossible? No? Well, then…When I was a little kidI thought that lakeswere like huge blue andgreen and brown eyes inthe forest, and once ina while, even now, allthese years later, whenI achieve childishnessagain, fitfully anddelightedly – I still do.No one more admires what it is we do with wood. We build schools and chapels and churches and houses and homes and cabins and sheds and bridges and roads and trails and paths and desks and bars and barrels and buckets and shingles and shakes and boxes and rinks and frames and steps and stairs and crosses and crucifixes and boats and ships and carts and wagons and hoops and bows and arrows and roofs and bins and shims and coffins and I could continue this sentence for a week. But probably you are like me, and every once in a while, when you see a pile of logs, they look awfully like corpses, don’t they? Just for an instant? And so they are.I think we are absorbed by forests and woods and thickets and copses and wilderness in general because shadows and flickering light are dangerous and alluring and mysterious. There are stories in the shadows, in the forest, flitting through the trees. How many legends and fables and myths are set in the forest? The forest is where possible lives. The forest is beyond the reach of sense and reason. The forest is not a place for logic and culture and civilized opinion. The forest is ancient and itself. The forest is hidden life and deeper secrets. Anything might live there and probably does and the only way to find out is to slip in beneath the eaves and vanish into it in exactly the same way you vanish into a story.As a species, said the late great Peter Matthiessen once, we are just down from the trees. We used to live in the trees. We forget that. We came down from the trees and out onto the savannah and we are still afraid of death. We are still filled with fear. That’s why we are so violent. We lash out. What if our moral evolution ever caught up to our astounding physical evolution? What then?The biggest tree I eversaw personally myself, onfoot, not from the roadwith other sightseers anderudite rangers and parkauthorities, was a spruceon the Oregon coast. Youwouldn’t believe how fatand tall this tree was. Itwas so much bigger thanyour house that your housewould quail a little if theywere on the bus together. Ithad been measured, and itsweight and age estimated,and it had been entered inregisters of huge trees, and itwas sort of famous, I guess,but I am here to tell you thatnumbers slid off this thinglike small vulgar jokes. Thissylvan creature – for creatureit was, alive and sentient anddigesting sun from aboveand minerals from below andwater from the mist – was sobig that when people saw itfor the first time they wentsilent. How people lookedwhen they saw it for the firsttime is what we mean whenwe say awe, it seems to me.I try to never forget that trees areverbs always headed up. Theyyearn, they elevate, they rise,they ascend, they have a majorsun jones, they set their feet andthen jump verrrrrrrrrrrry slowly,like the tallest slenderest toughestrough-skinned quietest basketballplayers you ever saw.You can’t stop the wonder with which peoplegawk and gape at trees. Even if you know thereare no trees beyond the fringe, even if you areabsolutely sure of that, even if there’s nothingthere but the awful battlefield detritus of aclear-cut, you drive along through the treesthat are there, gazing at them with respect andawe and affection. They are our cousins, ourteammates, our ancient teachers. You can learna great deal about fit and peace and enduranceand dignity and patience from trees.I have.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSBringing a first book to fruition requires a great deal of support and encouragement, and I am filled with incalculable gratitude toward all the wonderful people who have helped make this possible. I am deeply grateful to Brian Doyle for his words – for seeing what I am trying to express in my own medium, and for giving it a complementary form in his. Further, I would like to thank him for writing the bewitching novel Mink River, which I picked up on San Juan Island in the early stages of shooting Sylvania and which became an unexpected muse in my search for the magical undercurrents of reality. For insight and guidance along the way, I am particularly indebted to Elisabeth Biondi, Elinor Carruci, Marvin Heiferman, Andrew Moore, Gus Powell, Charles Traub, Kiki Bauer, Bonnie Yochelson, and my peers at the School of Visual Arts. Thank you for your candid critique and inspiration. For supporting the creation of this body of work and its transformation into a book, I am infinitely thankful to the following individuals and institutions:Humble Arts Foundation and LTI/ Lightside, the School of Visual Arts and the SVA Alumni Society, Uprise Art, American Photographic Artists, Douglas Drysdale, Mary Drysdale, Martha Peters, Howard Chua-Eon, Rob Lancefield, Hanna and Jacob Kaufman, Giorgio Furioso, David Carmen, Aidan Joseph, Dov Harel, Torre Johnson, Maxwell Mackenzie and Rebecca Cross, Suzanne Resnick, Peter J. Cohen, John Keon, Amy McIntosh and Jeffrey Toobin, Mary Schmidt, Kaye and Bob Wertz, Michael Dabney, Jim McCarthy, Etan Fraiman, and all the many, many others who pitched in. For your technical savvy, thank you Blake Ogden. For your persistent love and patience, thank you to my exceptional friends and family. I am particularly grateful to Granddad, Aunt Mary, Leeor, Alia, Corina, Hayley, my annisa family, and of course my wonderful parents – who have unflaggingly encouraged my every whim, and who inadvertently inspired this arboreal adventure. And finally, to Michael, Taj, and Ursula of Daylight, without whom this book would still be a mere dream – I am forever indebted and eternally grateful for your belief in Sylvania and for bringing it to life so beautifully.
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