28 ForOregonState.org/Stater C U LT UR E JULIA LONT College of Forestry’s home since 2020. Listening to the Forest is a series of large, multilayer panels depicting the cellular structure of four different trees found in the Cascades: red alder, western hemlock, Pacific yew and Douglas fir. Wilson took core samples at four different heights from each tree, and then she created images of each sample’s cellular structure. After that, she enlarged and laser-cut the images out of birch and resin. “The way I approached this was so forestry students can have part of what it is that they are studying, experienced in a way they won’t get in their classroom education,” Wilson said. In processing the core samples, she worked with Professor Emerita Barb Lachenbruch, who was able to look at those slices of wood and tell Wilson about the tree’s life and growth cycles, based on the patterns in its cellular structure. “My work always starts with the question ‘What haven’t I seen before, and how can I see this?’” Wilson said. “That curiosity is what I hope comes across in my work, and I hope it will invoke curiosity in someone else.” Wander and Wonder OSU provides a unique audience for public art because of the variable flow of traffic through campus, Betjemann said. Fans coming to a football game, for instance, will pass INGRAINED, a two-story, undulating wood slab at the recently renovated Reser Stadium. Community members attending a lecture at Hatfield in Newport will be drawn upstairs by the illuminated two-way mirrors making up This is Water, a series of 19 round sculptures, installed in 2020, whose reflected designs give the illusion of movement. Animal lovers bringing their furry friends to the doctor can pose for pictures with the menagerie of bronze statues installed outside the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine in 2022. Students climbing the ombré orange staircase in the Student Experience Center are walking right THE PERCENT FOR ART PROGRAM IS A REALLY GREAT WAY TO BRING ALL SORTS OF ART INTO PUBLIC SPACES FOR EVERYBODY. ↑ Listening to the Forest’s panels depict the microscopic cellular structure of red alder, western hemlock, Pacific yew and Douglas fir.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTcxMjMwNg==