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Spatial Construction

Wood as devotion

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Wood as devotion

ART–OTH–NAS

Wood as devotion

Index Code:

ART–OTH–NAS

Orgin:

Esher, UK / Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales

Field Notes:

wood as devotion · process as growth · material as time

Defining Moment:

Early 1970s — wood as devotion; order clarified

David Nash

(

b. 1945

)

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Nash built a world where wood records time.

Carved, burned, and planted forms grow with the landscape — collaboration with change itself.

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In his world, growth is sculpture.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In David Nash’s work, this approach appears where wood is shaped by growth, erosion, and time.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In David Nash’s work, this approach appears where wood is shaped by growth, erosion, and time.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Landscape becomes material, site, and scale.

Work is defined by making, duration, and transformation.

Observartory

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Contradiction as elegance

Endurance as empathy

In Dialogue

Monument as tenderness