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Listening to the Wood

Tyler Schrader's Mesmerizing mixed-media artifacts

Apr 01, 2026
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by Marshall Piros

Photography by Tyler Schrader

To the untrained eye, a piece of driftwood on a lakeshore or the fallen remains of a mighty tree might not seem like much — little more than scrap timber or forest litter. To Tyler Schrader, though, such wood is actually the beginning of a story. Identifying the inherent structures and organic patterns, he t…

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