Adam Frelin

Trees Hit By Cars

offset printed book (edition of 500)
7" x 9.25"
2007

Growing up, there was a big oak tree at the bend of our street that appeared to grow stronger each time it was hit by a car. As a child I believed that it was the lives of those drivers that made it stronger, their life force collected by the tree on impact. Having driven around the country on secondary roads in search of trees that were hit by cars, I discovered them through various tactics: police reports, insurance claims, public knowledge, and chance encounters. In 2007 I was given the opportunity to have a book of these photographs printed. Along with the fifty photographs, the book contains an essay by curator Toby Kamps, and a commissioned short story by Charles McLeod.

"Trees Hit By Cars" the book is available at Printed Matter and Dashwood Books in New York, Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, and Art Metropole in Toronto.