The starting point of this project is the inability to communicate in our time, we live in an age where communicating, and talking about a topic is complicated. Everyone talks and thinks of their interest.
For this project, I organized a happening in which together with the participants we sat around a loom and talked about climate change and the future that awaits us. And while we were talking, we wove a blanket for the branch of a beech tree that had fallen to the ground. during the happening, the beech tree was hung on the ground with pieces of black fabric. The black fabric represents man's actions towards nature, and by his actions, he rips the plant from the earth, which is why it is suspended in the air. It does not touch the ground because it is no longer part of it.
We do not realize that we are destroying the planet. Everyone speaks their language, and everyone thinks of their interest, we do not understand each other. That is why the poems that are part of the installation have not been translated into English. The poems are a series of 'prayers' from the planet and nature to man: it asks for mercy, it asks to be heard, but we do not hear it.
The installation consisted of a frame that became a kind of hole for a coffin after the happening. A fabric painted black was placed in the hole to represent the actions of the man who is not giving the planet a clear future.
The black fabric represents man's actions while the white fabric represents the earth.
The tree is hung with black fabric and does not touch the ground. The tree does not touch the earth because, man, by his actions, is somehow tearing nature from its home and is no longer part of the earth.
When the blanket was finished, it was removed from the frame, on one side with scissors, as if to represent how man adapts to the problem, in this case cutting knots out of the frame, rather than trying to solve problems with logic rather than deflecting to the problem and adapting.
Exhibition at Arttelex Antwerpen
