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global tree project

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

 I saw a large uprooted oak in a park. It lay as if sleeping on a gently sloping grass-covered hill. When I returned a few days later, the tree had disappeared. In place of its roots remained a scar, a mound of raw earth. I envisioned a new tree growing on this mound.

Like Inanna-Ishtar, goddess of Sumerian myth, I wanted to pluck this uprooted tree and bring it to my "holy garden." I wanted the tree to lie and sleep, envisioning a new world like the dream of the world that emerges from the Indian god Vishnu's navel in the form of a lotus flower.

As historian of religion Mircea Eliade wrote, if the plant and we come from the same uterus, we are a twin. We didn’t die from the separation, as do some Siamese twins, but, somehow we need to be together with them. In my global "tree" project, I try to heal our wound from this separation, and reopen our connection with trees, to be whole, and to have a new vision through them.

　

　

INDIA

2003 SECRET GARDEN
6-month installation with a banyan tree
site: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
2003  GIFT
installation with seven seeds, created during a workshop on biodiversity
site: Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun
- projects realized through UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists -

JAPAN

2005 SLEEPING VISHNU TREE
installation with gilded folding screens with statues of Buddha
site: Sutra Hall, Kiyomizu, Temple, Kyoto
- project realized for the international invitational exhibition KYOTO ART WALK,
curated by Shinji Turner-Yamamoto. Participating artists include Wolfgang Laib, Petteri Nisunen & Tommi Gronlund, Hans Christian Berg, Monika Kulicka, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Yuko Shiraishi -

IRELAND

2000  AQUA: omohalos
permanent installation with apple seeds and indigenous stones inside an 18th-century folly
site: Roches Tower, Cork
- project realized through Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes -

----- related works: 2001 AQUA: landscape voices, 2002 BLUE GOLD

　

USA

2005 SLEEPING VISHNU TREE
a large-scale triptych
site: General District Courthouse, Richmond, Virginia
- unrealized project -

2007-08  SEEDING
collaboration with Barrett Elementary School science students
site: Barrett Elementary School - Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
- supported by Arlington Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Project Grants -

2008  SLEEPING TREE
installation with a large dead dogwood tree
site: Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia
- supported by Reston Association, Shady Lane Tree Movers -

FINLAND

2008  SEEDING (working title)
site: Punavuoridesign, Helsinki
site: Porvoo Taidetehdas/Artfactory, Porvoo
- supported by Porvoo Air ry/rf, FINNAIR -

　

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