Tree is leaf and leaf is tree

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Detail from The Pataphysics Times (1964) cyanotype by James E. Brewton

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house is city

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in the Roman Forum

and city is house

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in the Roman Forum

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Take any part
​and there is the whole

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling

Take the whole
 and behold the part

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling

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Whole is part and part is whole

Detail from The Pataphysics Times (1964) cyanotype by James E. Brewton

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Central Park, NYC

(provided
each is identified with what it
needs in order to be house, city,
leaf or tree:
     moisture,
     air,
     sap,
     people and people's activities,
     emotions,
     associations.

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It is the multiple meaning within the two

images that matters in each case.

Painting and photo above by Emily Brewton Schilling

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A tree is a tree 
because it is also a large leaf.

Tree design by Emily Brewton Schilling

Tree design in homage to Asger Jorn by Emily Brewton Schilling

A leaf is a leaf because it is also a small tree.

Photo above by Emily Brewton Schilling

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A city is a city because it is also a large house,

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Almeria, Spain

A house is a house
because it is also a small city.

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Almeria, Spain

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Say, leaves or leaves on a tree.

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Chester County, Pa.

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Say, a few leaves still 
or many leaves soon.

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Chester County, Pa.

Say, leafless tree.

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Chester County, Pa.

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Say, This tree when my child grows up

James E. Brewton when he was young

and that tree when I was young.

Emily and Jim, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, ca. 1964

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Say, 
One tree,
lots of trees,
all sorts of trees,
trees in the forest.

From James Brewton in Silkeborg, DK, to Joseph Amarotico in Philadelphia, Pa. (1962)

Say, forest  

(hear: dark,
lost,
owl's hoot,
squirrel,
toadstool,
tiger,
timber.

Photo: Emily Brewton Schilling in Washington Square Park, NYC

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Say, apple tree,

Recolored design for Skyfields Brand Fancy Apples, Truesdell Orchards, Bluemont, Va., by Marion Holland (detail)

 
 apples,
 apple pie,
 fig,
 fig tree,
 figs,
 fig leaf.

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Say, 


NUTS!

Jim Brewton as a child, Toledo, Ohio, ca. 1933

Underbelly
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Detail from The Pataphysics Times (1964) cyanotype by James E. Brewton

COMPLETED

Aldo van Eyck

James E. Brewton

Emily Brewton Schilling

Marion Holland

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