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[Bill Johnson]

NB Logger almost hauls away artwork he mistook for woodpile
SACKVILLE, N.B. — The Canadian Press
Published Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 4:26PM EST

Last updated Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 4:28PM EST


The sculpture "Deadfall Sleep" 

A New Brunswick logger is unrepentant after beginning to dismantle a wood pile that turned out to be a sculpture titled "Deadfall Sleep."

Ron Fahey of Sackville said Monday he was granted permission in August from Mount Allison University to take the logs stacked in an area behind the president's residence alongside a water fowl park in the town.

"I got the OK to just take the wood and to me, it was just a pile of wood. If that's art then I'm in the wrong racket," he said.

"I guess I'm not cultured."

He said he was going to use it for firewood and had started to haul some of the wood away on Saturday when the town manager came rushing over to ask if he had permission to touch it.

Fahey, 59, realized the mistake and stopped working on the pile, though he'd already pulled several logs off.

Andrea Ward, the facilities manager at Mount Allison University, said there was confusion over which pile of wood Fahey was to dismantle behind the historic Cranewood residence on the campus.

"Basically we said, 'We don't think the wood you're looking at is on your property, but we do have some wood on our property if you're interested,' " she said.

The three-year-old art work is by local sculptor Paul Griffin and is displayed on a town website that advertises the community as the cultural capital of Canada.

Griffin says the town commissioned the work for $5,000 and it has two large maples entwined on top of a two-metre high stack of deadwood gathered from the forest.

"It's right in the middle of a water fowl park. That's one logger that's pretty hungry for a piece of wood," said the sculptor.

Nearby, there's a stump covered in galvanized roofing nails, another portion of Griffin's sculpture.

He said he plans to put the sculpture back together.

"I think I'll have to have a sign put up, but part of the art is to work in harmony with nature surrounding it."

Griffin, who also works as a technician at the university's fine arts department, said he was relieved the incident wasn't a case of vandalism but rather the result of "an honest mistake."

"I'm from northern B.C. and I've been a logger. It strikes me as a bit humorous," he said.

"They're maybe a little overzealous for wood. Maybe there's a cold winter coming on."

[SwampDonkey]

Here's the "sculpture".

http://www.sackville.com/culture/sculpture_sackville/paul_griffin

Looks like a pile of kitchen stove wood to be bucked to me.  I'm with the logger on this one. :D :D

[Woodhauler]

Firewood for sure! If thats art then i'm the next picasso!!!!! ;D

[Jeff]

Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ??!!

[Woodhauler]

That guy could sell snow to eskimoes!

[SwampDonkey]

Most expensive pile of pulp wood on the continent. :D :D :D

Come cut mine Woodhauler, on the woodlot, we'll be multimillionaires. :D

[isawlogs]

 
  Who'd a thought that that was a peice of art !!!!!!   : :

[pigman]

I think that is beautiful art. ;D ;D

[isawlogs]

Would you like to commission a peice or two Bob , Me and Jeff could probably fix you up between the two of us mighty quickly    !!!!

[SwampDonkey]

I think it's even more beautiful in the stove making coals and heat. :D

[Dave Shepard]

Looks like a trailer load of pulpwood, without the trailer. I have seen some really creative works of art. That, isn't one of them.

[Jasperfield]

Even in the most liberal use of the term "art" we know that isn't it.

What we don't know is the value of the second woodpile.

[Slabs]

You call it art, I call it fuel.

[SwampDonkey]

You've really got to shake your head.  :

[Bandmill Bandit]

If that is art I am Leanardo Davinci.

The only thing that pile is good for is fire wood and thats a stretch.

OK I had another look at the picture. Also noted that it is in New Brunswick in Canada which is the same country that Alberta is in and guess what thats where i live. Let me say it this way! There are a lot a red necks in this neck of the woods but the red necks in that part of the woods have blue noses too. if your south of the mason/Dickson line you will know what I mean. Chances are if that guy gets a divorce he will need a court to tell him if the female is still his sister after the divorce is over. Lots a talent in that neck of the woods for fiddlen music and hard core tap dancin and such but callin that art is an insult to real artists that come from that part of the woods.

A funeral pyre is what any self respecting east Indian would call it and id support em on that call. That log on top could even pass for a corpse. I mean with a title like "Deadfall Sleep" how else could it be interpreted? Any one have a torch handy? A little flame would get  it a lot closer to real art then it is now. How much you wana bet some kid lights it one night.

Sam McGee would a lit that sucker in a heart beat and climbed right up on it too. http://wordinfo.info/unit/2640?letter=C&spage=26

A better title would be "A Pyre For Sam McGee". At least that would garner it some respect and give it some context.

Sam McGee's daughter was my elementary teacher in a 2 room country school house.

[customsawyer]

I have seen a Art and he didn't look anything like that.

[Mooseherder]

Musta been Gubmint sponsored culture. ;D

[terrifictimbersllc]

A few pieces short of a cord  8) 8) 8)

p.s. The artist wanted it to naturally go the way of all wood, which it almost did, if  the logger hadn't been so rudely interrupted.  How's come what humans do to things isn't considered part of Nature?

[Peter Drouin]

I feel sorry for the people who think thats art, :-\ :-\

[nas]

I've got art like that all over my log yard.  Most of the piles I'd sell for $5000 8)

Nick

[fishpharmer]

What a waste of perfectly good firewood.  Can't wait to see it in ten or twenty years. 

They can change the name to "mushroom awake" :

[doctorb]

If you take the time to study that wood pile long enough.....you've got too much time on your hands. 

Doctorb

[SwampDonkey]

Like Moose said. Wasteful spending is why we are $8 Billion in the hole "in this place". Anyone want to start a golf course? :D

[Cedarman]

Mr. Griffin,  you are inspirational.
I have sold old gnarly stumps to ladies that gave me $200.00 for the privelege of having my stump in their flower garden.  And they hauled it.

[Faron]

You guys are missing the boat.  I, too, am an artist.  I think every small city within a 100 mile radius of Otwell needs a little culture like this.  I believe I can fill that need at $5000 per work of art. ;D

[northwoods1]

I feel sorry for the people who think thats art, :-\ :-\

Yes after looking at a pic of that I just shake my head and don't know what to say,, but I definitely feel sorry for them too :(

I think it is hilarious though reading the artists interpretation of it and reasons for making it :D :D excuse me for saying,,, but what a dimwit!! I'd like to take him on a tour of the Louvre or the Sistine Chapel and show him what real art looks like bet he would be dumbfounded...

[Mooseherder]

There is a gallery picture here of someone's cordwood pile with the depiction of a tree with it's many branches outlined throughout the cordwood row.

Now dat is art. ;)
Whooze da owner of said picture?

[DeepWoods]

If my tax dollars were spent to commission that pile of "art", I would vote the person who commissioned it out of office.

[SwampDonkey]

If my tax dollars were spent to commission that pile of "art", I would vote the person who commissioned it out of office.

We did, most of the whole dang bunch of bums this past September. :D :D

[beenthere]

There is a gallery picture here of someone's cordwood pile with the depiction of a tree with it's many branches outlined throughout the cordwood row.

Now dat is art. ;)
Whooze da owner of said picture?

I think it is an "internet" pic, as I've seen it passed around for several years. But it was art, unlike the woodpile.

[DouginUtah]

I posted this picture several years ago...

https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10332/woodpile.jpg

It is the picture of the tree in the woodpile.

[fishpharmer]

What do they say?  "Its in the eye of the beholder." 

Doug, in my mind, that wood pile is much more creative than the previous pile.  After I took some pics, I would still feed the fire with it.

[Bandmill Bandit]

Now that wood pile qualifies as art and it wasn't even commissioned i bet. probably some mom or dad or both with a few kids that needed a reason to stack the wood up real nice. I would love to know the story behind that one. In fact i would like an original of that to print and hang on my wall.

OK I found the artist behind the tree in the wood pile. http://alastairheseltine.com  Now this guy knows art with wood.

[Jeff]

As does this gal.

http://www.heatherjansch.com/

[Magicman]

All that I can say is WOW !!!

[ErikC]

 Everybody has their abilities. That guy may not be an artist, but he must make a DanG fine sales pitch. :D :D

[northwoods1]

That horse is really good it must have taken a lot of time to select all those different pieces of wood, and the design of the horse is right on

[Warbird]

  Who'd a thought that that was a peice of art !!!!!!   : :

I thought it was a piece-of-something but if I tried to say what, Jeff would toss me in da woodshed.  Unbelievable.

[Peter Drouin]

Now the horse is art . that takes talent.  8) 8)   Like the rest of us .cut down a tree and make lumber   8) 8) 8)

[WH_Conley]

Warbird. Under it. :D

[Bandmill Bandit]

hi every body
I talked to the guy that did the tree in the wood pile piece today. he and his wife stacked that as they split it for the winter wood supply. that was 2 years ago. the pile is charcoal now and he didn't even take any high res pics of it. they just do the stuff for the fun of it. That is genuine art. they do something new every year. i gave him the forum address. said they might join. guess we'll see.

[Warbird]

It would be pretty cool to chat with them.  And to see more pictures of real art.

[pappy]

Me tinks I'm in the wrong bees knees as we's guts all kinds a sticks 'round this place to make millions...   :  :D  ;D

[RPF2509]

Another artist who can make extraordinary things out of natural material is Andy Goldsworthy.  The movie 'Rivers and Tides' really speaks to anyone who likes the natural world

[Jeff]

[lmgtfy]Andy Goldsworthy videos[/lmgtfy]