SWS23 2023

Look at these Big F**king Trees!! (How To Draw A Tree)

Dawn Matheson

Interdisciplinary artist (Canada)

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CC-BY-NC: Richelle Forsey

The bench where for Look at These Big F**king Trees! begins

The bench where for Look at These Big F**king Trees! begins

The Arboretum, University of Guelph, Arboretum Road, Guelph, ON, Canada

52 minutes

free

English

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forest

Sub-collection · 38 items

mental illness

Collection · 4 items

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Participatory

Sub-collection · 52 items

university

Collection · 22 items

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thiswasnow.com

MultiMedia Artist who works with a social practice. Background as radio and video documentary producer. Currently on Canada Council grant creating site-specific, narrative- based sound walks in a forest on the parallel crisis mental illness and clima...

Sound walk

Finding Home (How To Draw A Tree)

Carey’s walk explores The Arboretum and makes connections with the Ward neighbourhood in Guelph where she lives.

Sound walk

Semi-Colon (How To Draw A Tree)

This piece is one of 4 participatory works created with and produced by Audio Artist Dawn Matheson as part of her How To Draw A Tree (“to draw” here meaning “to attract”) multimedia soundwalk project.

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Richard White

I am a creative producer and participatory media artist, intrigued by the possibility of being at the point where the physical and the virtual meet.

Sub-collection

forest

Sub-collection · 38 items

mental illness

Collection · 4 items

Sub-collection

Participatory

Sub-collection · 52 items

university

Collection · 22 items

Related

url

thiswasnow.com

MultiMedia Artist who works with a social practice. Background as radio and video documentary producer. Currently on Canada Council grant creating site-specific, narrative- based sound walks in a forest on the parallel crisis mental illness and clima...

Sound walk

Finding Home (How To Draw A Tree)

Carey’s walk explores The Arboretum and makes connections with the Ward neighbourhood in Guelph where she lives.

Sound walk

Semi-Colon (How To Draw A Tree)

This piece is one of 4 participatory works created with and produced by Audio Artist Dawn Matheson as part of her How To Draw A Tree (“to draw” here meaning “to attract”) multimedia soundwalk project.

url

Richard White

I am a creative producer and participatory media artist, intrigued by the possibility of being at the point where the physical and the virtual meet.

Sound walk

With humour, candour and a gentle heart, Jordie tells the story of his youth and his not-so-typical journey to higher education; he being the first in his family to attend university.

With humour, candour and a gentle heart, Jordie tells the story of his youth and his not-so-typical journey to higher education; he being the first in his family to attend university. The forest used to be a place Jordie went to escape life; now it is where he finds connection.
Trigger warning: talk of suicide (approx. time code: 44:10 to 49:00) and swearing.

This piece is one of 4 participatory works created with and produced by Audio Artist Dawn Matheson as part of her How To Draw A Tree (“to draw” here meaning “to attract”) multimedia soundwalk project. Matheson worked with 4 students living with mental illness who paired with trees for a year-long creative, care-taking engagement culminating in immersive storied sound walks on the grounds of the Arboretum in Guelph, Canada and virtually, online designed by artist Richelle Forsey. (www.howtodrawatree.ca)

Credits

Producer, Lead Artist, Editor: Dawn Matheson
Visual Artist (website): Richelle Forsey
Host and Audio Recorder: Jordie Lescard
Soundtrack Producer: Jeff Bird

Hosted by: Jordie Lescard (University of Guelph Undergrad student living with mental illness)

APA style reference

Matheson, D. (2023). Look at these Big F**king Trees!! (How To Draw A Tree). walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/look-at-these-big-fking-trees-how-to-draw-a-tree/

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earl-footed, hurdle-footed, club-footed

As in “He’s got feet like an earl-footed turnip” (said of someone who walks with his feet turned out). from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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