Near Stratton, VT summer 2022
“The Inversion prints capture not only the specific patterns in which the trees have grown but communicate something that we might call the character of these organisms; the etchings in a sense are portraits of these sentinels that have stood in our landscape for centuries watching over the relatively transient lives and histories of mankind.” –Lyle W. Williams, A Knife Out of a Cloud, Ruiz-Healy Art, 2023

These digitally produced photolithographs combined with traditional lithography made from
photographs taken in various locations around the world of singular, stoic trees. In the words of
curator Lyle Williams, “These prints capture not only the specific patterns in which the trees have
grown but communicate something that we might call the character of these organisms; the
etchings in a sense are portraits of these sentinels that have stood in our landscape for centuries
watching over the relatively transient lives and histories of mankind… A print of an ash tree looks
like an old photographic negative, like it belongs to another time; its branches form familiar
patterns over the surface of the composition… This post-pandemic work reminds us that we don’t
know what the future holds.” These more solid, sentient structures in their inversions in some way
mimic the clouds’ organic fractal-like structure, but they also speak to a much longer history and
to solidity and strength in the face of adversity.