From the series: Portrait of a birch tree

A three-dimensional branch of a birch tree floats inside a greenhouse. The both critical and poetic work investigates the reciprocal reference of similarity, diversity and identity. The branch is a filigree imitation of a real birch branch, a copied fragment of a birch, consisting of a birch wood-plastic composite. Its visual, haptic and olfactory properties resemble the original material. The work raises questions about identity and originality, – what is real, what do we perceive, why do we perceive something? The branch constructs a reality disconnected from its original environment, as a three-dimensional cutout of a tree that may no longer exist. As manipulation, correction, assertion, reproduction. Unlike its naturally grown model, the three-dimensional birch branch is not subject to any seasonal changes. It has a monumental size and yet is trapped in a glass house, cut off from its trunk, but held up as if it were still present.