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Dark bark beetle paths in light gray wood

Beetle Drawings

Leah Wilson
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence with Continuing Engagement (2012)


During my residency at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in 2012 I became fascinated by intricate burrows in logs and snags with the bark stripped away. Bark beetles created the burrows, as if writing poetry for us to find, in a language that we have some vague recollection of once knowing, but have now forgotten.

Beetle Drawing I
Gouache on paper, 30 in. x 22 1/2 in.

warm-colored painting of beetle paths

Beetle Drawing II
Gouache on paper, 22 1/2 in. x 30 in.

light-colored painting of winding curvy beetle paths

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The Forest Log collects work created by participants in the Spring Creek Project’s Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. 

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