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THROUGH THE OIL TREE
Inconveniently,
if you drive a car, Plant a tree
The portion is so inversely
VHS or DVD, black plastic
Made to entertain me
And discarded eventually
Movie piles of technology.
Consumers of petroleum, please
My needs include cooling trees
More leaves to cure car disease
Carbon levels create rising heat
Green Growth please
Beautiful shade creating
Converting carbon leafy trees
The Oil Tree sculptures are displayed in the film journal, Projector, Issue Thee, 2011. These sculptures were created by
breaking VHS tapes and creating a dimensional mosaic from the shards. They are meant to remind us of the ability for
trees to clean our air and reduce the rising temperatures created by petroleum use. After years of creating VHS for our entertainment, the plastic VHS are now discarded and useless. The more we create oil pollution the more we will be dependent on trees to clean our air and reduce our earth's temperature. There is an Iranian film called
Through the Olive Tree, about breaking down and reassembling the making of one scene of the same director's, prior
movie. This cycle of creation, breakdown, and reconstruction is also being seen in the Washed Ashore project.
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