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Exhibition of work by María Elena González, "Tree Talk" exhibition (Mills College Art Museum, 2019). The image illustrates a key, longstanding later body of work by María Elena González in the 2000s when she produced the ten-plus-year project "Tree Talk". The project deep explores connections between art and nature with a synesthetic approach employing diverse materials, media and senses. The image portrays an exhibition of the project at Mills College Art Museum, with velum collage works, flattened, framed birch bark works and sculptural objects visible.This body of work was publicly exhibited and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist María Elena González. Copyright held by the artist.

María Elena González

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key, longstanding later body of work by María Elena González in the 2000s: her ten-plus-year project "Tree Talk", which involves deep contemplation of nature and landscape, explored in a synesthetic body of work engaging diverse materials, media (sound, video, music, sculpture and works on paper) and the visual, aural, tactile and kinetic senses. The project includes a player piano roll made by translating code-like black lines and striations of birch tree bark and the resulting musical "scores;" large-scale rubbings and abstracted drawings of bark grain; framed fragments of the actual, flattened bark; cylindrical objects made in wood, concrete and ceramic that echoed the shape of the piano music roll; and a video installation. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key, later, longstanding body of work, which brought González ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. González's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by María Elena González, and the work is no longer viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.