Published
From HIgh Country Magazine - March. 2011
They rise out of half-memory and dream - Mythical, silent, vast. Vanished.
Appalachia's giant chesnut trees now live only through sepia images, quaint
as a bustle or flour sack apron. The blight that devastated some three
billion trees has become a mere lesson in biology: : the inclaculable loss
to our forests goes barely noticed by those of us born since the last old-growth
American chesnut faltered and fell, 70, 80 years ago.
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From the Laurel of Asheville - 02.01.2011
Anyone would stop and listen
to a cry of “Help! Help!” or “Danger! Danger!” The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks!—the
title of a new exhibition of paintings by Lowell Hayes—carries with it
the same urgency, the same sense of crisis, in this case concerning the
fate of America’s Eastern hemlock trees. Under siege by an insect called
the hemlock woolly adelgid, the stately giants of our forests are dying.
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From the HIgh Country Press - 12.02.2010
A suite of 11 large paintings by renowned Appalachian artist Lowell Hayes
enhanced with real forest materials like bark and branches will go on display
this Friday, December 3, at ASU’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Called
The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks!, this powerful collection celebrates the beauty
and mourns the imminent loss of the vast Eastern hemlock forest, which
has been fatally attacked by sap-sucking insects called hemlock woolly
adelgids..
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