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Elm Bark Container
Iroquois
early 20th century
"Gifts of the Forest" at UBS Art Gallery
photo by Bob Halloran
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SPIRITS IN THE WOOD
by N.F. Karlins



Feeling pixilated from too many art fairs and too much art that is digitally generated, enhanced, modified or otherwise manipulated, I went in search of art that is direct and primal. I found it in two exhibitions devoted to art involving trees and, more specifically, tree bark. Finally, artworks that haven’t had all their spiritual life Photoshopped out of them!

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