Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2009SYR01
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11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Branches Reach for You
poster information
Description
Branches reach for you
A forest of decisions
Which tree will you climb?
When I saw the picture, there were trees and a person at the center. They seemed to be trying to make a decision, and it seemed very hard. So I said it was a forest of decisions, because sometimes you have to make a lot of choices, and it's hard to know what choice is right. Like I have a lot of decisions to make about who I'm friends with at school, and what I decide about people, and who I want to hang out with, and how everything effects who I am.
When I said branches reach for you, it means you can be pulled in a lot of different directions, and not know what path you want to take. It's kind of stressful, and it can make you feel like you don't know who to believe.
I originally illustrated this piece for a good friend, Peter Cusack. We met in Syracuse, through the Independent Study Degree Program. He's the art director/illustrator for a small press, and he had always talked to me about illustrating a cover. In this case, it was for a book of poems called, Through a Gate of Trees.
I was still in the Syracuse program and living in the San Francisco Bay area. There's a Bay area arborist who took different trees and grafted them together to make intricate patterns. Really cool stuff. Some of the patterns reminded me of cathedrals. They almost speak to you on a spiritual level. So I took that idea. I wanted to illustrate someone looking within, digging really deep.