Detritus Forest (2008)

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An upside down forest from discarded Christmas trees found on the streets of Brooklyn, New York.

Dimensions:  Variable. 28 Retail Size Christmas Trees were exhibited at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery.

On Christmas Eve 2007, I picked up two discarded Christmas trees from the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
In the following weeks, I dragged many more into the gallery space, to later hang them upside down
from the ceiling with hangman’s knot.

Detritus Forest is a requiem for what has already lived: Evergreens raised to be chopped down,
adorned, go out of fashion, die and be disposed of. A luscious, yet deceased, inverted forest of
discarded Christmas pines swing softly- a poetic symbol for consumption. Detritus Forest does
not assign judgment. Instead, it confronts the viewer with the remains of a common and accepted
social practice. It is composed from by-product of the environmental issue itself.

Detritus Forest questions what we use as materialists, leaving us to evaluate actions, surroundings
and priorities.

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