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| 'Winter Timber' by David Hockney |
He was quoted in The Guardian as saying, "It is something that has made me depressed. It was just a spite. There are loads of very mean things here now in Britain." He has been to see the damaged stump and is doing drawings of it as a way of dealing with the saddening turn of events.
Apart from Hockney's own beautiful artworks to memorialise the tree, there's still another way to see it. If, as I'm wont to do, you go travelling on Google Street View, you can visit the location of the tree stump and see it still standing, in rather lovely wintry sunlight. It's in Sands Wood, on Woldgate, the road from Bridlington to Kilham.
6 comments:
It does seem rather incongruous that someone so mean minded could also be aware of the significance of this tree stump. I always like to think the best of people and human nature and then you hear about something horrible like this. What a shame.
A totally pointless act of vandalism - it is not as if the stump was being claimed as a work of art itself. Hockney must feel personally targeted by the perpetrator(s). But we stand with you David.
That really is sad - and almost unbelievable that someone with enough of a knowledge of art to identify this particular stump, should deem it worthy of such mindless vandalism.
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I find it very puzzling that someone should go to so much trouble, schlepping a chain saw, paint etc to a rural spot, out of sheer nastiness. It is most depressing. Tree stumps often look the subjects of violence when newly cut, and this just adds to the brutality.
I am dreading the loss of ash trees.
Mindless, totally, mindless.
My thoughts echo Cathy's exactly. This is sheer malicious damage, obviously planned and executed by someone who wanted to make a point that 99.9% of the population won't get or understand. Somtimes I despair of my fellow man.
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