Poplar Trees and Telegraph Poles
Ursula Fookes British
Not on view
Fookes’s Poplar Trees and Telegraph Poles features a row of wooden utility poles that mirror in form and orientation a line of poplar trees across the road, creating a new kind of allée that reflected the alteration of the natural landscape by contemporary technologies. Stringing the poles together are two parallel rows of wires that extend beyond the horizon and edge of the paper. Like her print Mining Town, No. 2 (MMA 2019.592.118), this work illustrates the impact of those technologies that accompanied recently developed environments. Numerous artists and writers noted the ubiquity of new modes of communication, such as those signaled here, with telephones, telegraphs, and the infrastructure that supported them appearing in a wide variety of works.
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