Reconnected – Artist Reunites Illegally Felled Trees with their Stumps
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Just over 400 years ago an infamous witch trial took place in Pendle, England. Last year, a group of artists were asked to commemorate the anniversary of the hanging of the ten innocents accused of practising witchcraft. Artist Philippe Handford, in a moment of pure inspiration as far as I am concerned, used a sad example of modern day vandalism to reconnect with the cruelty of yesteryear victimisation of the supposed supernatural.
Along the forest trail where the Pendle Sculpture Park is situated, several trees had been illegally felled, the criminals hacking the tree down and leaving the trunks where they fell. Cut down cruelly and irresponsibly, just as the victims of the witch trials, Handford decided to reconnect them. The result is both startling and contemplative.