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Hartford, VT "Frenchie" Chainsaw Environment - Armand "Frenchie" Gaultier 1923- Carved & Painted Trees

Information: Armand Gaultier did not begin transforming trees into his trademark ‘smiley faces’ until he was fifty years old. The Vermont dairy farmer and handyman known as ‘Frenchie’ (a reference of his French-Canadian descent), claims that the idea to carve giant and often grotesque faces from the trunks of living trees ‘just kind of struck me.’ The expressive power of these works is dramatically amplified when considered in the context of their natural setting, and gives a face to the palpable, yet otherwise abstract animism that pervades the woods near his home. This self-taught artist proves that aesthetically interfacing with the natural world is not the exclusive province of mainstream conceptualists. Raw Visions

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	Raw Vision: The Tree Circus
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Bibliography: Raw Vision Magazine: "The Tree Circus" #38, Spring 2002. "Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.

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