by Karrie Higgins | Mar 22, 2022 | ableism, accessibility, Cedar Rapids, climate change, Iowa, pyrography
When we first invited locals to burn lines into a slice from the Log of Unknown Origin to commemorate their lost trees, we didn’t elaborate on the form they should take. Even still, a pattern emerged immediately: short tally marks drawn perpendicular to the...
by Karrie Higgins | Sep 3, 2021 | ableism, Cedar Rapids, climate change, COVID, disability, pandemic, pyrography, racism
The Log Project codex opened last night at CSPS Hall with pyrography: writing in fire. Visitors were invited to burn lines into log slices to represent their lost trees. This is the text they read before doing so: codex, an ancient manuscript text in book form from...