The simple joy of breathing clean air, sitting on a tree trunk and listening to the birds has become luxury for some. And it seems that the search for true, unspoiled nature gets more intense.
But what is it that makes us careless in sustainable management of resources becoming even more limited?
Lies-Marie investigates how the use of sustainable resources, created in a sculptural way, can influence the attention for environmental awareness and the appreciation of nature.
For her, looking at nature with creative eyes is necessary to do what it does so well, provoking us to think differently, with creative statements tempting us to act differently.
She works together with arborists from Nordic-Tree-Care and uses elm tree-trunks from Stockholm. These elm trees are infected by the Dutch Elm Disease. To prevent a spread of the elm disease the infected elms were cut down by the arborists.
The results of the project are seats for people. Every seat is different. But they approach to the senses of the user and there unusual appearance in space amplify the trees own sensual attributes in such a way, that it is easy to discover them. The elm seats make people attentive about the sensual quality of wood and call people's attention for environmental relevance in our days.
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