Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The nature of trees

The images below are of an art installation called "Tree Logic" by Natalie Jeremijenko.

Trees are dynamic natural systems, and Tree Logic reveals this dynamism. The familiar, almost iconic shape of the tree in nature is the result of gravitropic and phototropic responses: the tree grows away from the earth and towards the sun. When inverted, the six trees in this experiment still grow away from earth and towards the sun

Her project asks us to think about our manipulations of nature while at the same time showing us an extreme example of the non-natural.