Thursday, November 3, 2011

"il concetto con il falò interno"

every day beginning at 9 am, an artist plants 196 tree seedlings in soil containers that cover the floor of a "white space".

after lunch time, they are watered and tended to.

after dinner time, they are uprooted, placed in a pile in the center of the space, and burned.

the nightly fires are repeated until significant smoke stains are achieved on the walls.

the stains are photographed, and printed in large format.

the photographs are burned.

this entire process is documented in video, with the footage placed on a dedicated website that will remain unedited, possibly, eventually, going dormant. or perhaps not.