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Tree Lines (Paperback)
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Tree Lines (Paperback)
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Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees
with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain
environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct
artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband and wife
team of Valerie and Michael Cohen employ a unique process whereby
she draws in isolation, gives him her drawings, and he then writes
whatever he's inspired to create. Neither offers the other any kind
of feedback or instruction. The result is an accessible and deeply
engaging work that is also extremely well researched; the Cohens
bring a lifetime of scholarship in literature, history, and the
environment to this work. The drawings are black-and-white,
pen-and-ink representations of high alpine ecosystems. The prose is
stripped bare, abbreviated in an epigrammatic style that is poetic
and spontaneous. Trees represented here are the Western Juniper or
Sierra Juniper, the Limber, and the Bristlecone Pine-three species
of long-lived, slow-growing conifers that grow across the Great
Basin. While they represent only a small portion of the vegetative
culture high in the western mountains, the Cohens use
representation as abstraction as is utilized by writers and artists
to convey a unique kind of microcosm of our natural environment.
This book compares to such classics as Leopold's A Sand County
Almanac, and Berger's Ways of Seeing, which open up lines of
observation, analysis, and art for a new generation of readers.
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