Bienville Square oaks that were torn down by Hurricane Sally are reborn in an art exhibition
in September 2020, an idea emerged: Use the fallen wood to make works of art. The healing notion was straightforward. The wood itself, it turned out, was as complex as its history.exhibition of works made from fallen Bienville Square oaks. It’s accompanied by a note saying, “This was the most difficult wood I have ever worked with.”
“That was the consensus from a lot of the artists, that the wood was really problematic,” she said. It held hidden cracks. It broke tools with its hardness and at least one trailer with its sheer weight. It was slow to dry and stabilize. Other artists used the wood as a canvas for a variety of techniques, from carving to a variation on Kintsugi, the Japanese technique of mending broken pottery to turn flaws into features . Some commemorated the square or paid tribute to famous Mobilians, as in Abe Partridge’s tar-and-acrylic Joe Cain and Kathleen Kirk Stoves’ pyrographic portrait of Eugene Walter. The latter, titled “Hurricane Party,” bears the Walter adage: “When all else fails, throw a party.
As for Retting, he can look at his vase with relief. He said he put about 50 hours of work into the project, a vase with an elaborate topper inspired by Bienville Square’s fountain. He has a photo of an intermediate stage where the project was held together by something you don’t normally find in a woodworker’s shop.
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