Brent Crothers works with salvaged wood, often spending years discovering a tree’s essential gesture. In Turning Together, Crothers inverted a maple, which had fallen near his garden after a storm, to bring out the tripod shape created by three limbs. Now held in check by a man-made ring, the work suggests how a fresh perspective can result from turning things around, including a reconciliation between nature and humanity. The charged, pyramidical composition also functions as a portal into time and space, reaching deep into the past and projecting into the future. The piece was sited at Arena Stage.
Brent is from outside Baltimore, MD.
