2015
Within the city, trees located in public spaces or on private property, over time, grow and intersect with artificial materials such as wire and iron that surround them. This process produces an unnatural composite between what belongs to nature and what has been constructed. Over time, the branches of trees that are cut from where they stand remain inside the wires like a trace.
In this work, as an individual intervention, the wires are cut and removed from their place together with the tree fragments that remain on them. This intervention creates physical voids within the fences and boundary structures of the city. As these artificial unions that emerge from the collision between city and nature are removed from their sites, voids carrying the traces of the intervention are left behind—like the mark a tree leaves on a branch.
The total surface area of the collected fragments and the opened voids is 7.98 m². The map that accompanies these fragments shows the locations from which they were taken. When looking at the maps, a distribution of tree and building density becomes visible.
