Mitch Ryerson Opening Boston, MA 2002 Carved Sugar Maple, copper, the poetry of e.e. cummings Artist's Statement This transformed tree offers an "opening" into the natural world. It is both a shelter and a doorway; it is a place to pause, read, think, and dream as well as a marker of change and transition. I like the idea of experiencing an e.e. cummings' poem as a physical event. Seeing the landscape framed by the tree and feeling the power of the tree around you gives a very tangible meaning to his words. Opening was created as part of an artist-in-residence project sponsored by the Trust in collaboration with the Little House School in Dorchester. Ryerson carved into the trunk of a tree that had to be cut down and removed due to illness. The artist stamped a poem by e.e. cummings into the bronze floor of Opening; cummings is buried in the Clark family lot nearby (off Althaea Path). Return to list of artists

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