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July 7, 2009 This piece is now at the Stone Quarry Hill Park
in Cazenovia STACKS “These trees shall be my books” (As You Like
It, Shakespeare) David Harper 2005 As one of a multitude of quite amazing results of millennia of evolution, we humans owe our allegiance and respect to this fragile planet. All we are has roots in the earth. Our accumulated knowledge has been recorded on stone, clay, plant fibers, petroleum products, and other arrangements of elementary particles. Symbols printed on paper are still a common form of preserving and sharing knowledge. Paper, books, shelves that hold them, and seats we take to study them have been fashioned from fibers created by solar-powered lifeforms which transform the elements in soil and air. The energy and matter loaned to us and all these other creations will pass through us to unimagined future forms. This installation is an attempt to express my appreciation for this miraculous world. September 2006 After a year of installation at Cazenovia College, “Stacks” was “restacked” beside the New Woodstock Free Library, a landmark for the library visible from Main Street.
September 2008 Now, after three years of exposure to the elements, “Stacks” has grayed, shed some bark, and developed wrinkles, as we all do. The structure has settled into its new home, hunkering down comfortably, anticipating a number of more good years until its time of parting arrives.
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