by Neville Gabie, located 2001
This project resulted from a Year of the Artists residency undertaken by Neville Gabie in the autumn 2000 and spring/summer of 2001. It was realised with the financial assistance of South West Arts, the Forestry Commission and Arnolfini Collection Trust and the co-ordination by Bruce Allen and Samantha Wilkinson.
“The project is built upon a permanent work which sees the volume of a tree represented in a variety of states, - as a permanent installation in the forest - four event based pieces that are documented and presented in printed form.
The Permanent Work:
A tree¹’smass represented as a cube in the forest - working with a tree surgeon I will convert the whole volume of the tree into cubes and install it in the forest as one large cube.
Four temporary pieces
1. a measurement of the total degradable volume of the tree which is measured and represented as a hole cut into the ground. - the hole may be documented in advance of the YOTA week or on show - this is to be confirmed in the context of health and safety 2. a measure of the caloriflc value of the timber in the tree which will be turned into light 3. a measure of how much water this tree would draw from the ground in a given period. The temporary work would be a photograph of the water being dropped over the forest. 4. a measure of the amount of oxygen this tree would convert in a given period. The temporary work would be an inflated large purpose made bag.
The temporary pieces together would represent the volume of the tree measured in the four elements, earth, air, water and fire.
The leaflet will host an image next to the calculation of the specific measurement.”
Neville Gabie
