Pren, papur a resin / Wood, paper and resin
40cm x 180cm x 40cm
“Ar 1 Medi 1919, daeth y Ddeddf Coedwigaeth yn gyfraith. Sefydlwyd grŵp o gomisiynwyr, a’u rôl oedd chwilio am ‘unrhyw dir’ at ddiben coedwigo, er mwyn ailgyflenwi’r genedl â phren a rhoi sicrwydd o adnoddau pe bai rhyfel arall.
Rhoddodd y Ddeddf bŵer prynu gorfodol i’r comisiynwyr ac, yng Nghymru, troswyd llawer o’r hyn a fu unwaith yn dir comin ar gyfer ffermio a defnydd cymunedol ar y cyd yn blanhigfeydd, coed nad oedd ond yn ddigon da i gyflenwi pyst ffens, coed tân a sglodion pren.
Mae’r gwaith hwn yn archwilio rôl y ddeddfwriaeth yma wrth ail-lunio ein perthynas â choed yng Nghymru. Mae’n cyfeirio at waith Giuseppe Penone, gan fynd â darn o ffawydden Plas Glyn-y-Weddw yn ôl i’w ffurf yn 1919, a throi’r gwastraff a grëwyd o’r broses gerfio hon yn bapur ar gyfer argraffu geiriad gwreiddiol y Ddeddf Coedwigaeth arno.”
– Joseph Conran
“On 1st September 1919, the Forestry Act became law. It created a group of commissioners, whose role it was to seek out ‘any land’ for the purpose of
afforestation, to resupply the nation with timber and give it resource security in the event of another war.
The Act gave the commissioners power of compulsory purchase and, in Wales, much of what was once common land for shared farming and community use was turned into plantation forestry, only good enough to supply fenceposts, firewood and woodchip.
This work explores the role of this legislation in reshaping our relationship with trees in Wales. It references the work of Giuseppe Penone, taking a section of the Plas Glyn-y-Weddw beech tree back to its form in 1919, and turning the waste created from this excarnation process into paper on which to print the original wording of the Forestry Act.”
– Joseph Conran