The pyramid with its
inseparable connection with the tree which it environs is an answer to a
"powerful" place of a hill with a dominant tree on top.
Visually, the place is exceptionally exposed,
lying above the valley traversed by a highway and visible from far around the
region. What makes the place unique is the position of the pear tree on its summit
– an undoubtedly prominent, eloquent place, calling out and demanding an
answer.
The pyramid is the
answer, a completion of the place in its opposite. We responded to the natural
sign with an abstract one and so united nature and culture in a single place: a
living being and a rigid skeleton construction, two contrasting archetypes –
the tree and the pyramid, which are not mutually exclusive, however, but
complementary. The pyramid upgrades and surpasses the existent place, both the physical
as well as the social – it is its added value. The wooden prefabricated
construction would mark this specific place for a period of one year (until the
end of 2008) in which a tree goes through all the annual growth cycles.
While the
construction was still in progress, and even more so after its completion, the
place was visited by many people, stirring something in them. This is the main
potential of this spatial sign. The pyramid with the tree is turning into a
place of convergence, a sort of a pavilion in the wider landscape, while at the
same time offering opportunities for gatherings and exchanging ideas, for various
cultural and other manifestations (exhibitions, art camps, literary evenings,
concerts, performances, etc.).
