Art project picture 02
After the wood pile was found in the forest, I decide how it felt to ly on the wood pile, beeing one with the pile of wood and the surrounding it was in.
3 ways of dealing with a readymade object, found in a forest showing human demolition of trees to make way for roads in an attempt to make a residential area in a protected forest area. In other words: showing the rapid growth of a city and bad “human city planning”, a protected forest area has to make way.
Deforestation is the main focus in this art project where I “investigated” tree ways to handle with this ready-made rectangular object. Looked at it from another angle we could say it is a symbolic and ritualistic way to “mourn” about the loss of these trees in a country (Zambia) where 90% of the people are believing in a self-proclaimed Cristian nation failing to protect the environment and its animal wildlife, especially when it is a borderline case. We could also questioned what is mourned here: that the trees are illegally demolished in particular or that the people are unable to be strict about the borders of a protected forest area.
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