“I consider it formally impossible to ‘create’ anything ‘out of wood’ that is more profound, useful or beautiful… than any actual tree. Even a dead tree, just there, on the landscape.

At the same time, some objects ‘made from wood’ are profoundly amazing. A violin, a woodworked object, or a book.

This is the strange paradox of being as I am. Whatever that may be thought to be, or become in actual relation.”

— an a i