The Biographies of One Birch Tree

The Biographies of One Birch Tree / The series of artist’s books, № 8

Materials: some pieces of birch bark with holes found on the ground under one birch tree, wire, black electrical tape, blades of grass, a found earring, wool thread

June, 2026

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This March there were a lot of woodpeckers in the park in Lauttasaari, Helsinki. And one day I saw a lot of birch bark pieces with bark beetle flight holes under one birch tree.

I don’t know who made these bark pieces — woodpeckers or bark beetles but I decided to collect some pieces and to turn them into several books. And here they are. And we can see that the birch bark was only one but the books look different. It’s like books about one person — every writer writes about one person in their own way. And who are the authors of these books, it doesn’t matter because the main hero is about whom these biographies are.