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ROOTS AND BRANCH

A statue in progress, shown here as it currently stands, not as a finished work: thirteen years of the artist's own hair, cut and kept, now being shaped into a leafless tree whose roots reach as wide as its branches. What the tree keeps below ground equals what it shows above, a form that argues, without needing to say so, that what a body inherits and what it becomes carry the same weight. The material was never chosen. Only its second life, as sculpture, is.

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