Resonator - Ian Wieczorek - contemporary visual artist

Resonator is a low-impact artistic intervention sited beside a well-established forest trail in la Forêt de Grésigne. Using minimally altered materials, the work comprises a vertically placed tree branch and three large rocks that act as its support. The 2.5 metre tree limb, which was found lying on the ground nearby, was selected due to its crossing branches, creating a long thin ‘eye’ at one end. Raised vertically into position, in a small natural ‘amphitheatre’ space located beside a well-established forest trail, it assumes a sense of intentionality that invites conjecture from anyone who engages with it. No additional artifice or device has been added to direct attention toward the work, the intention being that it should be discovered by trail users as they make their way along the path.

Based on its simple construction and materials, Resonator suggests some kind of minimal primitive totemic or shamanistic signifier, yet its form is also reminiscent of a contemporary aerial or transmitter. By offering itself as an object of contemplation, its associative connotations acknowledge, reflect and amplify the rich and long history associated with the locale. Figuratively drawing from the earth in which it is rooted, it might even be seen as a symbolic conduit that taps into notions of Jungian archetype and the collective unconscious.