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Nurse Log2017

Susanna Mishler


Logging boiler, electrical conduit

A nurse log is a fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings. Mishler bent electrical conduit so it appears to be sprouting from this late 19th century logging boiler. She asks viewers to consider how machines have sculpted this very natural-feeling forest.

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