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I saw a large uprooted oak in a park. It lay
as if sleeping on a gently sloping grass-covered hill. When I returned a few days later,
the tree had disappeared. In place of its roots remained a scar, a mound of raw earth. I
envisioned a new tree growing on this mound. Like Inanna-Ishtar, goddess of Sumerian myth, I wanted to pluck this uprooted tree and bring it to my holy garden. I wanted the tree to lie and sleep, envisioning a new world like the dream of the world that emerges from the Indian god Vishnu's navel in the form of a lotus flower. As historian of religion Mircea Eliade wrote, if the plant and we come from the same uterus, we are twins. We didn’t die from the separation, as do some conjoined twins, but, somehow we need to be together with them. In my Global Tree project, I try to heal our wound from this separation, and reopen our connection with trees, to be whole, and to have a new vision through them.
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INDIA 2003
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JAPAN 2005
SLEEPING
VISHNU TREE |
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IRELAND
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USA
2009-08 SLEEPING TREE 2008-07 SEEDING 2005
SLEEPING VISHNU TREE |
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FINLAND
2008 PETALS OF THE
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