Andrew Mackenzie
14 3/8 x 21 5/8 inches
The works on paper, Moonlit Woodland 1 (orange) and Moonlit Woodland 2 (red), are based on woodland at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders, owned by a collector called Hugo Burge. Hugo loved trees and supported many artists and makers in their work. In 2021 he commissioned me to make a large scale sculpture in these woods from steel and bronze, including an orange-painted 9m bronze cast of a felled sycamore. The two works on paper recall a moving moon-lit visit to the sculpture, during an event called Thresholds. Hugo sadly passed away last year, but his legacy continues with the Hugo Burge Foundation. The layered diagrammatic line drawings running through and between the trees, made by hand with a tiny brush, present a distillation of human space, but are left deliberately ambiguous. They are 'frameworks', suggesting how we construct our sense of place, as an exchange between what is there and what we bring to it through our prior knowledge and experience, somewhere between the human and more-than-human.
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