Jim Jacobs: The Imperfections That Render Us Visible Exhibit

Part limb or trunk, part processed lumber, these translations of tree forms show signs of humans— tools, furniture, hair, squared and planed lumber. In Crest, branches extend, not from a trunk, but from the legs of a chair that has tipped over backwards. The white desiccated blossoms foam like the crest of a breaking wave. In American Cherry, a species of tree that is part of America’s mythology of presidential honesty, the tree is inverted. Its trunk transforms into wire-form lattice and slumps, perhaps melted.