"ups and downs" is an installation / intervention in a forest in Estonia consisting of 5 manipulated air tubes that rise and fall at regular intervals. Photographs of the surfaces of real birch trees served as models for the prints.
With these obvious tree fakes and their constant and unnatural upward and downward movement, we want to point out the worldwide intervention of man in a natural cycle, which he opposes with his own economic motivation.
In most parts of Europe, trees are cut down, followed by reforestation in monoculture, then they are cut down again, and so on.
With this installation, we want to question this cycle and invite visitors to think about whether the human-manipulated forest is still an attractive, functioning habitat and whether we can deal with the consequences that will result in the long term.
The work was created and first shown in 2022 as part of the project: "Wildbits", at Maajaam a technological art residency and exhibition programme, that will exhibit more realised works in 2024 in an outdoor programme as part of Culture Capital Tartu.
