Yew

Yew features 28 images taken around and inside an ancient yew tree and features a text written by the artist that talks
about the deep time of ancient trees and how much of human civilisation has changed during this tree’s lifespan.
The photographs with their strong flash and close proximity produces an element of abstraction, a confrontation
between the idea of an ancient tree and facing the knot ridden skin of this unfathomably old tree itself.
Excerpt:

I
sit
beneath
an ancient yew tree
snacking on a bag of Beer Nuts
sipping on a 75p mango energy drink
sucking on a blue razz vape
short term solutions
long term health risks
quick hits of synthetic joy
consumed against the backdrop
of the unfathomably old Acknerwick Yew
a tree so fucking old that it might have already been
a thousand years old when the Romans first set foot in Britain
so very much older than the writings of Shakespeare
it is older than the english language itself
older than any bound books
older than Jesus