Artist Maskull Lasserre is known for his inventive installations that “induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected.” For Schrodinger’s Wood, a suspended tree sculpture, Lasserre has expertly carved a large and lumbering tree trunk into a delicately detailed piece of frayed rope.
Cleverly named after the well-known thought experiment, Schrodinger’s Wood features a hanging tree trunk whose midsection has been whittled away into a realistic representation of unraveling rope. To retain much of the felled tree’s original features—including its shape, texture, and natural orientation—Lasserre has opted to carve out only part of the trunk. In addition to preserving the tree’s integrity, this avant-garde approach creates the suspenseful illusion that half of it will come crashing down once the tension-riddled, tattered “rope” finally snaps.
Like many of Lasserre’s carved creations, Schrodinger’s Wood exhibits a straightforward and simple composition. The wooden sculpture itself is composed of an ash tree trunk, while only a chain hoist and gantry are used to hang it from the ceiling. This minimal approach to materials places emphasis on both the conceptual nature of the artwork and Lasserre’s undeniably impressive sculptural skills.
If you’d like to learn more about Lasserre’s fascinating installations—namely, those like Schrodinger’s Wood, which he describes as “physical thought-experiments, mechanical meditations, and as instruments for the shaping of thought processes”—be sure to check out his book, Pendulum. Additionally, you can keep up with his current projects and upcoming exhibitions on his website.
For his latest wood carving work of art, artist Maskull Lasserre has transformed a tree trunk into a tattered piece of rope.
He crafted the unique tree sculpture by meticulously whittling wood.
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