The installation is based on the relation of natural and artificial materials with optically blurred boundaries between the two. It’s a combination of natural and printed wood pattern, natural and glass stones, natural and artificial plants within a single unit. The work reflects the saturation of living spaces with these elements in which artificial materials take the role of the natural ones. I take the idea for the installation from this exact phenomenon, which works calmingly in the space, causing comfort and content in the same way that artificial nature works in living spaces.

Part of the installation involves a tree and a technique called grafting that is used in fruit growing. Instead of natural branches added to the tree, I used artificial branches that remained attached to the trunk of the tree which naturally heals along the lines of the cut thus accepting the foreign element. Due to the presence of live plants, this work is of a temporary nature.

As a side part of the project, there was also an intervention in the public space, in which I plastered some parts of the stems of living trees with a printed wood pattern. The intervention illustrates the dual nature of a tree – as a living being or a useful material.