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Milagro de la Primavera (Miracle of Spring)

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Milagro de la Primavera (Miracle of Spring)

Wych-elm branch, acrylic paint, base from an old slate fence.

The Text is from "A uno ulmo seco" (To a dry elm-tree) by Antonio Machado.

The wood is a branch of wych-elm, cut from a dead tree whose roots had collapsed into the Menai Strait. Because the piece is fixed to its base and the branches are rather slender, I had to design an alphabet with no ascenders and descenders so that the words could be read fairly easily. I first came across this quotation in a scientific book, Elm by R. H. Richens. The words are from the poem A un olmo seco (To a dry elm-tree) by Antonio Machado. An approximate translation would be: My heart expects also, towards the life and towards the light, another miracle of spring'.

87 x 113 x 18.5 cm.
$890.07

Original: $2,543.07

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Milagro de la Primavera (Miracle of Spring)

$2,543.07

$890.07

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Wych-elm branch, acrylic paint, base from an old slate fence.

The Text is from "A uno ulmo seco" (To a dry elm-tree) by Antonio Machado.

The wood is a branch of wych-elm, cut from a dead tree whose roots had collapsed into the Menai Strait. Because the piece is fixed to its base and the branches are rather slender, I had to design an alphabet with no ascenders and descenders so that the words could be read fairly easily. I first came across this quotation in a scientific book, Elm by R. H. Richens. The words are from the poem A un olmo seco (To a dry elm-tree) by Antonio Machado. An approximate translation would be: My heart expects also, towards the life and towards the light, another miracle of spring'.

87 x 113 x 18.5 cm.