Jimmie Durham

The Piece of Wood, 2005
Mixed Media , variable dimensions
print on paper, wood

A piece of wood attached to the wall is the main character of a story told in a text hanging next to it. This anecdote starts at the Slovenian-Croatian border where a tree is planted. Throughout the text many other stories get intertwined in a chain of events and coincidences, all involving this piece of wood, eventually found by the narrator (Durham) in the waters of the Lido Beach in Venice.

Read the full text in the assets bellow.