Introduction
The project consists in the realization and the installation of an evolutive “archisculpture” where Man works for the trinity: creation - transmission - renaissance. The sculpture - as a vegetable babel tree - invites us to relearn to contemplate the natural world and to put back the tree to its divinity rank. Each individual is invited to leave a metal leaf and to formulate an awareness, a willing to act to transmit and perpetuate the vegetal structure, basis of any civilization. We symbolically give back what we have taken from Nature. Each leaf left by the individual in the heart of the piece will finance s reforestation and revegetation projects within the country and Europe for centuries. The project will be installed momentarily in different symbolic public places and eternally within a museum.
Characteristics
The piece of art represents a monumental tree stump, with a PI diameter for a 5m height in which the public can enter into its center. The sculpture brings forth the cycle notion. The entire piece of art will be composed of recycled materials. The envelope, the bark is made of wooden elements, cleats, battens, herringbone, all recycled from architectural projects. The elements are burned and assembled with the Japanese technique Shou Sugi Ban. A set of piercings are planned to include 7 colors’ stained glasses (Newton chromatical circle) to symbolize Man’s Seven virtues. The piece of art will be progressively covered by the metal leaves (gold, silver, aluminum, copper, etc.) all composed with recycled materials. At the end, the sculpture will become a sounded megalith where the material absorbs the sound and the light will become a reflective and radiant surface.
Synopsis
Architecture has been intimately linked with Nature’s architecture for centuries. Nature’s proportions have enabled different harmonious and aesthetic architectural rules. In mythology, forests are considered to be the first divine temples witness of God’s memory. The tree appears to be a major element in our collective memory to create civilizational architectural writings. Man has taken those characteristics to magnify the art of building. Its cyclic nature, its aerial verticality, makes it a symbol of booming life absorbed in the memories of individuals sharing the same area. The annual cycle links it to the succession of life, death and renaissance.
Nevertheless, the tree myth has disappeared. Man no longer becomes trees. In this architectural and urban conquest that calls for frantic deforestation, man strips himself from himself and from his heritage when he strips the forest. Thus, the urban conquest on wild territory impacts the vital signs of our planet and dives future generations into an ecological fragility.
From this hypothesis the piece of art, through the architectural stump, unlinked with its nature context arises our questioning on the position of Man within the city as a global identity, abstract and elusive as it appears to be in opposition to the vegetal world. We are since the beginning of times intimately linked with Man’s architecture and the Nature city, making it the fundamental values of our environment vector od social and unifying relations.
