2012

With the growing awareness and concerns about environmental despoliation, climate change and the fragile interdependence between humans with their natural environment, this living bonsai sculpture highlights the problematic relationship between humans, technology and the natural world.

The artist symbolically deconstructs the natural processes of carbon-based plant growth, photosynthesis and transpiration by representing these natural functions with an array of recycled instruments and mechanical devices of metal, glass and plastic. The centrepiece is the living organism itself, an Australian native Ficus bonsai tree, which here represents all trees as nature's own efficiently functioning carbon storage and carbon dioxide conversion machines. With this work the artist seeks to raise awareness of the incomparable beauty and sublime functionality of trees and living organisms.

Alternative title: Organic, Environmentally-Sustainable, Regenerating, Solar-Powered, Water-Fuelled, Earth-Enriched, Oxygen-Producing, Carbon Sequestration and CO² Conversion Machine

Courtesy of Beowulf Galleries