Josh Johnson Hedge Speak found particleboard, sassafras, hackberry, quartz crystal, rocks, found string, found carpet scraps
Ruiner
2024
found particleboard, sassafras, hackberry, quartz crystal, rocks, found string, found carpet scraps
21" x 37" x 29"

Hedge Speak translates everyday encounters through the preternatural language of folklore and transformation. Materials mined from my surroundings, the wood of "trash trees" and species growing in the creases of my Southwest Missouri neighborhood, are synthesized into recognizable subjects plucked from nature and domestic interiors. I carve, join, and construct forms that are repeated again and again, blurring the line between production and ritual.
Hedge Speak