Stephen Galloway has been working with parts of a huge clump of this vine, many of which are decades old. The material is a massive tangle of sticks and strands, twisted and braided together.He composes with the material in the studio, separating, weaving, and layering. Between his initial ideas and the material's behavior, certain forms and compositional tendencies emerge. The photographs retain the detail of the sticks, but they are now far from natural form. They are simultaneously sticks and wood and ideas and abstractions. - September, 2006