When a tree falls, the sky falls is a temporary outdoor art event that deals with the ongoingness in nature: the action of trees falling, branches breaking, the duration in the material, temporality and weather patterns.
The project arises as a reaction to incidental events in park-like settings such as a fallen tree or branch, and the shift it makes in the ordering of nature. What happens when a tree falls? What are the consequences of movement and its future potential?
A town-wide event that uses private properties and utilizes the active transformation of our world as an event to choreograph new movements: new ways of seeing nature, activating the feeling of temporality and duration. It’s a town with many trees. Fallen branches are everywhere. It’s an ongoing activity that keeps on being re-organized, re-moved and self-started again. Weather phenomena help into this way of transformation. When a tree falls the sky falls is activating a phenomenological experience of the action of falling – using branches that are small and light – like air, like sky. By using light mirrored mylar material, a reflection of the sky shows up on the mylar, creating a sky to ground relationship. The material is moved by the wind, changed by the rain and snow, feeling light, like air, like sky.