Why this artist built guitars out of a tree that was once used in a lynching. - NBCBLK
Guitars made by artist Freeman Vines.The creative process begins as soon as Freeman Vines touches the wood.
The title of the book and the exhibit refer to the haunted wood from a lynching tree that Vines used to make a series of guitars. The book is filled with beautiful tintypes of the luthier, his creations, the land and the raw poetry that comes from Vines' mouth:A man is the most destructive, evilest thing, that's ever been.Vines said he always listens to the wood, gets to know it a little — and then begins his relationship with it.
He was imprisoned at age 14."I was underage in a grown folks' penitentiary. If you were 2 years old and the white man said you did a crime, you had to go," he said.The college I went to is spelled C-H-A-I-N G-A-N-G. One day as he walked out of a shop he heard a sound that struck him so deeply that he longed to replicate it. So in 1958, when he was 16, he began his"supernatural experience" with wood and with fashioning stringed instruments.A year or so ago, Vines went to a man who was related to the Jefferson family, which once owned Vines' family during slavery. The man had some wood from a 100-year-old tree. According to the book, Mr. Jefferson said:"Vines, I'm gonna tell you now.
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