Sunday, March 14, 2010

Wove, woven, weaved


Etymology 1 Old English wefan. Cognate with Dutch weven, German weben, Swedish väva. Etymology 2 Probably from Old Norse veifa ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin vibrare. So etymology 1 can be said to relate to what people do, and etymology 2 to what objects do. A person weaves, an ambulance weaves. There also seems to be a distinction between going over and under and going side to side, twisting turning... A branch, a knife blade, a hand. The weave of the branch as the act of the hand.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Solidity and thought

I have been in daily interaction with wood to shape solidity, subtracting out of a form to discover something within even as it remains a thought. The wood is there.