wildscape. literary journal

Title: Fenceboard // Artist: Benjamin Green

about the piece

This piece has a redwood burl backing, a mountain spire made of broken redwood fenceboards,  foreground of broken veneer, and beach stones as moon and other landscape details. The elements are layered in place using Liquid Nails as adhesive.  Way back when, I sold wood from demolished buildings as campfire wood. I usually stomped the boards with my feet to make them firepit sized. The resulting edges always looked like pieces of landscape to me. The idea stuck, and maybe 30 years later I finally made this first  “Fenceboard” landscape. If there is a “meaning” to the work beyond image and composition, it is that there are only so many design elements in nature.

about the artist // Benjamin Green

Benjamin Green (he/him) is the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming (Bellowing Ark Press, 1996) and the upcoming Old Man Looking through a Window at Night (Main Street Rag) and His Only Merit (Finishing Line Press). He is also a visual artist, exploring landscape through many media. At the age of sixty-eight, he hopes his new work articulates a mature vision of the world and does so with some integrity. He resides in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.