Growth Layer

Just another Friday night in the studio. I’m soaking, peeling, & drying out thin, translucent layers of tree bark from a trunk that washed up on the Washington coast. It’s just occurred to me that what I’m really doing is stripping away from the growth layer just underneath the bark. Growth layer from a dead tree…”Oy”, that means the goo I’m covered in right now is the tree equivalent of placenta. The things I get myself into, I swear.