Decaying Leaf (Badge), 13" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2009	UFF, 16" x 7", van dyke brown print, 2009	Decaying Leaf ( Stingray / Kite ), 13" x 13" van dyke brown print, 2009	Decaying Leaf (Second Heart), 14" x 12.5" van dyke brown print, 2009
Curl, 19" x 9", van dyke brown print, 2008	First Pollen, 13" x 19", van dyke brown print, 2008	Ground Pollen #1, 19" x 9", van dyke brown print, 2008	Pollen Down, 19" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008
Decaying Leaf (Broken, Falling), 7" x 16", van dyke brown print, 2008	Decaying Leaf (Heart), 13" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008	Decaying Leaf (Flying Bird), 13" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2009	Decaying Leaf (Gingko), 13" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008
Hackberry Leaf with Nipple Gall, 19" x 10", van dyke brown print, 2008	Five (Sweet Gum), 19" x 10", van dyke brown print, 2008	Birch Pollen,  19" x 9", van dyke brown print, 2008	Scaffolding, 19" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008
(Young) Hackberry Leaves, 19" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008	Dunce, 19" x 10", van dyke brown print, 2008	Seeds, 19" x 9", van dyke brown print, 2008	Two Seed Pods, 19" x 13", van dyke brown print, 2008

Tree Pollen, Seeds and Forces of Nature


When conditions warrant I like many others begin a month of misery lasting most of April. Curious as to the source of my incessant sneezing, I began to collect parts of trees such as flowers, pollen, seeds and leaves by taking cuttings or gathering pieces that had fallen near the base of trees. These samples are scanned into a computer, made into transparencies and printed in the Van Dyke Brown process on [a Japanese] Kozu Unryu paper. The resulting images are botanical studies of small pieces of trees some of which in the spring can be a humbling force of nature.


-francis schanberger, summer 2008

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