Schematic drawing for Newton’s apple tree
in the Driftwood or Sharimiki style (detail)
2006
all works © Lisa Peachey 2015
Digital print on Aquarelle Arches paper (set of 3 prints)
76cm x 56cm
Edition of 5 prints plus 1 artist's proof.
Representation is often an attempt to use a short-hand to explain the world, whether through science, diagram, or myth. In the summer of 2005, the artist visited Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, Isaac Newton’s home, and was given apples from his infamous tree (root of gravity and a slapstick myth).
The possibility of growing a bonsai from that tree is suggested in the planned schematic drawings of an artform that has its own duration. The slapstick moment that signaled the Enlightenment era is commemorated in images of the potential control of the very natural process through which the mythical inspiration occurred.
