Thursday, 21 May 2020

How To Build A Tree,

using miniature humans,


 the installation is called “The Garden” at Expedia Group headquarters in Seattle, all images © Ethan Murrow,

 the 53-foot mural of exposed roots and tangled branches, Boston-based artist Ethan Murrow shows an energetic construction site manned by human workers, who heave their materials and balance across taught ropes,  

 in a statement, Murrow explains that his scenic works are rooted in United States history and culture, 

  “As our world leaks and creaks forward, landscape can act as the ultimate term and representation of the joys and foibles of our actions. Landscape is an aesthetic ideal, an edited view of reality that suits the maker—in essence, a fiction. For me, the word has come to define our use of images and stories to convince ourselves of who we are, what we know to be true, and what we wish was fact”

many of Murrow’s projects that are concerned with historical narratives and human progress can be found on Instagram, what a novel idea to show humans constructing a part of the natural world.


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