tree/ghost/tree
This was the first intervention I started for Mourningtown. Here is the recipe:
cut mimosa branches that have taken over the yard and pile them
extract color from flowers, plants and soil where the house burned and the trees grew
arrange the sticks into a surface to paint on
cover the surface with ghost images and words
let the words rest
turn the surface back into sticks
turn the sticks into mulch
pile the mulch, and plant a tree in the pile
the work belongs to the tree now. The tree turns the mulch that was sticks, the sticks that were ghosts, the ghosts that were a surface, the surface that was a tree, either back into a tree, or into a new tree. It’s not up to me how the tree sees the work.
