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Solstice, June 21st 2011, 5:16pm

Photograph
2011 (photographed), 2017 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Taxus Baccata takes as its subject an Ancient Yew tree, located in Tandridge, Surrey. During 2011, Rolland visited the tree at the four seasonal peaks: the spring equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. Regarding the process of discovering the tree, Rolland said: ‘I spent an entire day at its feet thinking how best to portray it and just spending some time together. Its roots really caught my imagination and even though the tree is enormous, I felt the roots best represented him’. This series explores the contrast between the Micro and the Macro worlds. As the centuries-old roots of the tree appear next to fresh green shoots, the photographs evoke a sense of cyclical timelessness and universality.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleSolstice, June 21st 2011, 5:16pm (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
C-type lambda print
Brief description
Photograph by Veronique Rolland, 'Solstice, June 21st 2011, 5:16pm' from the series 'Taxus Baccata', 2011, printed 2017, C-type lambda print, ed. of 6
Physical description
Colour photograph depicting the base and roots of a large tree, with green foliage in the bottom right foreground
Dimensions
  • Paper mount height: 246mm
  • Paper mount width: 202mm
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Taxus Baccata takes as its subject an Ancient Yew tree, located in Tandridge, Surrey. During 2011, Rolland visited the tree at the four seasonal peaks: the spring equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. Regarding the process of discovering the tree, Rolland said: ‘I spent an entire day at its feet thinking how best to portray it and just spending some time together. Its roots really caught my imagination and even though the tree is enormous, I felt the roots best represented him’. This series explores the contrast between the Micro and the Macro worlds. As the centuries-old roots of the tree appear next to fresh green shoots, the photographs evoke a sense of cyclical timelessness and universality.
Collection
Accession number
E.674-2017

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Record createdSeptember 1, 2017
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