I felt like I was walking through an enchanted forest, with the trees spreading out to make a trail for me. That was my answer when Ursula von Rydingsvard asked me how “The Contour of Feeling,” her current installation at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., made me feel. This forest of treelike forms was handcrafted from four-by-four and two-byfour lengths of cedar wood, layered upon each other like shingles intricately formed into massive constructions. They are temporarily screwed together in layers, then glued together with resorcinol — a World War II glue used for ship mending. They towered over me or lay on the floor, formed into slithering antediluvian monsters of shingled wood. This artist, veteran of shows and residencies at Storm King Art Center, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Venice Biennale, grew up in Plainville, Connecticut, after … [Read more...] about A WOMAN-MADE FOREST: VON RYDINSVARD’S CONTOUR OF FEELING