A Thought:
"I see the people they look to me like trees that move about.”
An Action:
Assignment #5: Look at a Tree, Make a list, Take a picture
“Look at a tree and its shape. Look at the part the leaves play in making the shape you see and look at the part the trunk and branches play in making the structure you see. Look for patterns made where the foliage is dense or light. Look for dark and light and other color changes that come about on the leaves, which are really all the same color but change with the reflections of the light.
Look at a tree for one hour in the week you are seeing shadows. Write every specific thing you see about that tree. Make a list of the other things that you think are related in structure to a tree: an umbrella, a lamp, a broom.
When you get past making lables for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, names, use, and description have dissolved.”
- Sister Corita Kent, Assignment
D O C U M E N T A T I O N > send us your list in the body of the email with an image of the tree. friends@stoveworks.org
Today’s Assignment comes by way of Jodi Hays (Nashville, TN). Thanks, Jodi!