Ai Deng

             









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. 

The project explores themes of rootlessness, spiritual drifting, and balance. Inspired by walks in the forest, the work traces the transformation of twigs through drawing and material rituals. Lines become actions, and trees become vessels of memory. The scroll unfolds like a visual journey, connecting the physical and the spiritual.

By combining shamanic imagery, personal experience, and reflections on contemporary emotional states, the artist invites viewers into a soft and contemplative space—where small acts of reconnection quietly begin to emerge.







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Plaster/Twigs               Hnadsize               Pen drawing 
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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