New World Sticktionary
a guide to the language
of trees and shrubs, Revised Edition
9 x 6.5 x 3”
Book-shaped box covered with Mexican bark paper, variety of sticks with definitions created from fragments cut from a dictionary
I have a sense that trees and shrubs, and perhaps all plant-beings speak to each other. They will speak to us too if we learn to listen. Because plants lack the physical mechanisms for making deliberate sounds the way animals do, I imagine their communication takes the form of gestural shapes, colors and textures as expressed in the growth of roots and branches. This Stictionary is only a small sample of the vast tree/shrub lexicon, translated into human English.
This is my third version of a Sticktionary. |