Today is International Woman's Day! So in celebration, I thought I would write about a woman artist. Naomi Siegmann, a sculptress, was born in 1933, who lives and works in Mexico City. She feels living in close proximity to pre-Hispanic ancient remains has inspired her work. She carved wood for over twenty years, when health concerns caused her to turn to other methods. Never in all her years of carving did she need to cut down a tree for her work. Instead, she used cast offs from veneer shops, found wood in the forest, etc,
Currently Siegmann works with sand cast molds of wood, using metal, paper, and found objects and she calls her work "abstracted realism". Although most of her work is life sized, some is monumental. In 2010 she was organized a project to promote forestation with 14 other artists challenged to create trees from any material BUT wood. The sculpture I am including here was made in 2016, entitled Jacaranda. It is an open Jacaranda tree pod, measuring in centimeters 80x38x39.
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