“Rana works primarily with untreated California woods, especially redwoods. Her process spans the physically dangerous to the meticulously delicate — moving from chainsaws and grinders to interventions with silk threads, thorns harvested from her backyard, and hand tools.”Catalogue text for “Dream” is being written — the statement above is from the studio bio.
Placeholder — imagery below is from the studio archive (“Behind the Scene”); Dream’s own construction story will take this lane when its process media is gathered.
Reduce the mass. Increase the surface. Then char it — and let fire do the last of the drawing.
On the technique she calls “painting with fire”
Charring a carved form — the torch pass
Working at full scale, up the ladder
Inside the hollow of a felled trunk