Tree! Tree! Tree! 2025
Tree! Tree! Tree! questions the linear myth of “progress” by staging a time-archaeology at the margins of temporality. The project comprises a 12-meter hand-made artist’s book folded like tree rings and a set of branch plaster balance sculptures. Sourced from walking, I retain each branch’s natural orientation and load, build provisional structures, then feed these findings back into linear drawings, tightly coupling sculptural making and image production. Across the pages, images undergo iterative flexible deformation, where the concrete and the abstract interweave. The ringed structure resists arrow-time: a seed germinates, branches, merges with the forest, and finally fades an allegory of rootlessness within modernization. Through gentle, nature-derived imagery, the work reopens silenced local stories, invites a co-creation of past and present, and prompts a felt sense of balance and symbiosis amid the costs of “development.”
Tree! Tree! Tree! questions the linear myth of “progress” by staging a time-archaeology at the margins of temporality. The project comprises a 12-meter hand-made artist’s book folded like tree rings and a set of branch plaster balance sculptures. Sourced from walking, I retain each branch’s natural orientation and load, build provisional structures, then feed these findings back into linear drawings, tightly coupling sculptural making and image production. Across the pages, images undergo iterative flexible deformation, where the concrete and the abstract interweave. The ringed structure resists arrow-time: a seed germinates, branches, merges with the forest, and finally fades an allegory of rootlessness within modernization. Through gentle, nature-derived imagery, the work reopens silenced local stories, invites a co-creation of past and present, and prompts a felt sense of balance and symbiosis amid the costs of “development.”
6cm x 1200cm
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The twigs are the framework. The naturally growing form is my nner self I yearn for, balance and freedom, while the outer self is tightly wrapped in plaster bandages and cannot be relaxed.
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