Lois Dodd’s show Outside In opened on the first real snowfall of the season, and both her new paintings and the melting flurries were a reminder of the agency involved in seeing—the muscle required to shift focus between objects and sort the flux of the world into something familiar.
Join Paul G with an interview with Mark Marsolais from Birch Bark Coffee! Mark is Ojibwe and a Band member of Whitefish River First Nation located on %
Foliage may steal the limelight in the garden in spring and summer, but come winter, the bark of bare trees can be truly stunning – if you choose wisely when landscaping. "Bright bark colours from yellow to orange to red come into play with the purple dogwood (Cornus alba)," says German landscape architect Daniela Toman. Some bark is even white, the best known example being the birch tree (Betula). Other plants rely more on structure to grab your attention: "You can quickly recognize a cherry tr
In his rustic cabin in the forests of southern Finland, 87-year-old Erkki Pekkarinen carves delicate strips of birch bark with his knife, before intricately weaving them into beautiful objects.His art gallery in Asikkala is filled with a myriad of objects constructed of nothing but strips of birch bark woven together without glue or nails.