Nash built a world where wood records time.
Carved, burned, and planted forms grow with the landscape — collaboration with change itself.
In his world, growth is sculpture.
Nash built a world where wood records time.
Carved, burned, and planted forms grow with the landscape — collaboration with change itself.
In his world, growth is sculpture.
Natural process is often treated as something that alters a work after it is made. In David Nash’s work, natural process functions as a structural condition from the outset. Growth, burning, weathering, and decay are not effects applied to form but parameters that determine how form exists over time.
Sculpture does not stabilize at a finished state. Material change remains active, with duration operating as a governing constraint rather than an external influence.
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