Human Tree

The Human Tree, featuring its strange figures sawing down the tree is emblematic to me of the experience of quitting painting. The completion of this painting has come to represent a renewal, like a film played in reverse of Roman soldiers that, by working their saw, are causing a fallen tree to be rejoined, stand up and grow once again. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, this painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The Human tree is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.