A Small Book of Trees, Minna Kantonen
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From a Tree to Another
The trees in Minna Kantonen’s photographs blend in yet do not quite seem to fit within their urban environments. Unnatural nature that fails to fulfill its role as an opposite of culture. Are these trees homeless, or do they create places for themselves as they define open in-between spaces with their presence? Like weeds they fill the gaps that haunt the order, and give us a glimpse of another reality or an alternative way to dwell in a city. They live their own time in the streets, frail and mortal next to the buildings, timeless compared to the constant movement. As silent wittnesses they measure the temporal rhythms of both the individuals and the society. What is the time and space of trees, in relation to us? - Taru Elfving
The trees in Minna Kantonen’s photographs blend in yet do not quite seem to fit within their urban environments. Unnatural nature that fails to fulfill its role as an opposite of culture. Are these trees homeless, or do they create places for themselves as they define open in-between spaces with their presence? Like weeds they fill the gaps that haunt the order, and give us a glimpse of another reality or an alternative way to dwell in a city. They live their own time in the streets, frail and mortal next to the buildings, timeless compared to the constant movement. As silent wittnesses they measure the temporal rhythms of both the individuals and the society. What is the time and space of trees, in relation to us? - Taru Elfving
80 pages, 38 colour plates, 160x127mm
Images: Minna Kantonen
Editor: Hugo Worthy, The City Gallery, Leicester
Book Design: Binod Tamang
Printer: Karisto, Finland
Essays by Paul Tebbs, Hugo Worthy and Taru Elfving
Published: The Artist and City Gallery, Leicester, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9554095-2-3
Images: Minna Kantonen
Editor: Hugo Worthy, The City Gallery, Leicester
Book Design: Binod Tamang
Printer: Karisto, Finland
Essays by Paul Tebbs, Hugo Worthy and Taru Elfving
Published: The Artist and City Gallery, Leicester, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9554095-2-3
12 works on loan (from the series A Small Book of Trees) Government Art Collection, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, London, 2003
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A Small Book of Trees, the Photobook Club's Natural Collection
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