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...
by Karrie Higgins | Dec 10, 2020 | Cedar Rapids, climate change
We are at work on the codex, installation, and “little forest” created from logs collected all over Cedar Rapids in the wake of the derecho storm on August 10, 2020, when the city lost ~70% of its tree canopy to winds the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane with no...
by karriehiggins | Sep 16, 2020 | accessibility, Cedar Rapids, climate change, Iowa, Salt Lake City
earth, wind, water and fire: climate change has long since come to Cedar Rapids A month after a derecho with winds equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane hit Cedar Rapids, the time is out of joint. Decaying tree debris piles look like fresh-raked leaves in autumn. But...
