<\/p>Arbor Day<\/a> was celebrated recently and it makes me think of my father! He was always planting trees and bushes, and I remember neighbors saying that if he planted a broom, it would also grow. Arbor Day<\/a>, which is usually celebrated on the last Friday in April, encourages the planting of trees.\n

I too have a penchant for trees, and they are a source of imagery for my artwork. \u2018Arbor\u2019 pertains to trees and a \u2018glyph\u2019 is \u2018a symbol used for non-verbal communication\u2019.<\/p>\n

I began my series of Arborglyph<\/em> monoprints<\/a> back in 2002. I was photographing textures (natural scarring and peeling) on aspen tree bark, and decided to use those images in my printmaking endeavors. I took the negatives and enlarged them in the darkroom. To my delight, the images looked symbolic and resembled calligraphy or characters. I exposed the images to solarplates<\/a> (photographic printmaking plates) and then printed them onto paper on an etching press. I began with 6\u2033x 6\u2033 solarplates, but quickly starting combining several solarplates with other printmaking techniques to create larger, more complex monoprints. I am still working on that series today. See my PORTFOLIO, Arborglyphs. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Arborglyph: (1 symbol 3) I <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a9<\/em> 2002 Linda C. Everson, All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Later,\u00a0I heard an interesting discusssion about aspen carvings on Colorado Public Radio (KCFR)<\/a>. They were talking about Arborglyphs<\/em> in the southwestern states<\/a>. \u00a0Apparently, the name I was using for my monoprint series is also the name used for the graffiti carved into aspen trees by Basque and Hispanic shepherds while tending their animals from the early 1800\u2019s \u2013 1950\u2019s. Because aspen trees do not have a long life span, documentation<\/a> is currently being made of these older graffiti laden trees before they die and their legend disappears. Several articles have recently been written about these Arborglyph<\/em> trees, and many people at art festivals have commented on certain trails to take to find these shepherd images<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I photograph the man-made graffiti on the aspen trees, but generally I\u00a0prefer the natural scarring and peeling. I\u2019ve found that\u00a0imagery provides more\u00a0abstracted, symbolic images which tend to look more like calligraphy, and have a more mysterious overtone. I\u2019ve created my own pictorial language of glyphs and actually have my own \u2018invented language\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0also incorporate\u00a0the glyphs in my artwork into the title signature line on the monoprint.<\/p>\n

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