“Learning to Be”, highlights 3 trees salvaged from the Urban Landscape, upended and slightly animated to create a sense of movement and raise the possibility that a plant can transform into something completely different.
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We are only now beginning to learn about the intricacies of trees. Emerging evidence demonstrates that trees exhibit remarkable social, cognitive, and communicative abilities, operating as highly sophisticated, communal, and interdependent organisms within their own species.
These entities build their communities through information-sharing, akin to the collective intelligence of an insect colony – a process that occurs at a pace imperceptible to the human senses.
They grow, however, very slowly with many species outliving our own. We marvel at the beauty of trees but by and large, take them for granted. This gave me the idea of animating these neglected orphans from residential properties into creatures of superior beings. By inverting the tree so the branches become legs, they are free to roam the exhibition making friends and otherworldly connections.
