The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Heart of the Dragon
2010
(American, b. 1955)
Image: 43.2 cm (17 in.); Paper: 55.9 x 76.2 cm (22 x 30 in.)
Gift of the Artist 2017.190
Location: not on view
Description
Moon’s series on ancient trees is part of a tradition of tree portraits dating back to the beginning of photography. The distinctively shaped, endangered dragon blood’s tree is unique to the island of Socotra off the Horn of Africa. Its sap is a dark red resin that has been valued since antiquity for medicinal and other properties.- Becky Harlan, “These Ancient Trees Have Stories to Tell,” National Geographic, March 24, 2016, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/03/24/these-ancient-trees-have-stories-to-tell/.Steve Meltzer, “Beth Moon’s New Photo Book Is An Astonishing Visual Homage to the Oldest Trees on Earth,” Shutterbug, December 30, 2014, https://www.shutterbug.com/content/beth-moon%E2%80%99s-new-photo-book-astonishing-visual-homage-oldest-trees-earth.Gillian Orr, “Photographer Beth Moon’s black and white images celebrate the diversity of ancient trees,” The Independent, March 15, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/photographer-beth-moons-black-and-white-images-celebrate-the-diversity-of-ancient-trees-10102417.html.Zachary Slobig, “The Most Ancient and Magnificent Trees from Around the World,” Wired, January 22, 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/01/beth-moon-ancient-trees/.Beth Moon, Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time, New York and London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2014.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.190