tree project

http://urban-forest.mattters.com/2010/9/3/has-london-gotta-lotta-bottle--or-too-many-garks

"Hi Hiroshi how are you? Last week I wrote you that I failed with the seeds you sent me but yesterday with a big surpride I saw one seed, only one seed of Chinese parasol is sprouting !!!!!!  Here the pictures !!!" ---Viviana

        "Hi Hiroshi, I'm sorry to say but my persimmon tree has passed. I'm a little late in getting the news to you as the last leaf fell at the end of August. Here are some pictures of what it looked like at the very end." ---Maggie

「 やっと猛暑が去り、涼しい秋となりました。でも先日まで33℃あった温度か今日からは24℃。極端です。 被爆青桐3世が一カ月で大きく成長しました。そろそろ単独の鉢に植え替えてやらねばならないかもしれません。 被爆夾竹桃の子が我が家のベランダに加わりました。この二十日に終了した「広島アートプロジェクト」に参加アーチストが出品したものです。 今年のアートプロジェクトは、過去のプロジェクト検証でした。吉島公民館のグランドに仮設した野外アートセンターと市立大資料館、二つが会場でした。 今は、香川県を中心に開催されている「瀬戸内国際芸術祭」が人気です。」 −−−竹澤雄三

   "We're moving through the fall, wondering what the next stage of this small plant's cycle will look like. Watching this Gingko sprout and grow is a metaphor for what I'm doing in my work as a teacher and artist. Autonomy is crucial to this discussion.  Did you do that on purpose, with intent? Or was it an accident. Are we free to make things that can exist in and of themselves? Or does everything we make exist only and forever embedded within a vast net of other things. What is the purpose of making?..........." to read the whole article at  http://seanjustice.blogspot.com/2010/10/tree-project-update.html