[3] Watch about some installation designs

Trees 2015

Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at 8Q

Imaginarium / a Voyage of Big Ideas

14 March - 19 July 2015

Artist Takashi Kuribayashi found a tree that had been chopped down to make way for redevelopment. To create this installation, he put the cut-up sections of the tree trunk into glass boxes. The remaining glass boxes are filled with leaves and small plants that the artist found in Singapore, so that when viewed from a certain angle, the glass boxes collectively form the image of a whole tree. The image of a tree contained within glass boxes is also a reference to how nature often exists in very controlled environments in cities such as Singapore. Over time, the sections of the tree trunk will decay, and in the process give life to new organisms and ecosystems, so that each glass box will hold a tiny new world of its own.