Claire Meharg

Portfolio: 'Skin of the Woods'

The bark of the tree represents the marks of time, and becomes a metaphor for all systems of growth and change, and for the structure of history itself.  As with human skin, the bark of the tree is a boundary between the exterior and the interior, where metaphorically it is problematic to operate outside our own hidden and visible boundaries.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLOUGH OPEN COMPETITION 2015