This piece is made with 100% rubbish (metal from c. 180 discarded cans).
It highlights the liveliness of the mychorrizal network, and its paramount importance for all life on Earth. Hidden underground, this network is what allows all flora to communicate and support each other throughout the planet. Whenever and wherever we interrupt this incredible system we damage our planet, and although self-healing, it often takes decades (if not centuries) to reconstruct. A secular tree can hardly be replaced with young ones, not only for the different capacity CO2 they have to store CO2 and produce new oxigen, but also because of the ancient language they must learn and spread which enables them to communicate with fungi, bacteria, and all the surrounding vegetal life. What we see above ground is but a small part of this complex ecosystem, and yet we take it for granted whilst barely understanding the importance of it, and how every little intervention we operate above ground impacts the same breathing and living ecosystem which supports us and ensures our survival.
