A tree but not only one life, but many lives. It begins as a tree and later it becomes the wood which is used in industry, in furniture, or it may have another life as charcoal, which becomes fire, a symbol of warmth, cooking and the home. Human beings, by contrast, have only one short life. I use the idea of "burning" in this project to do three things: first, I made a monoprint and drawing on hundreds of small pieces of paper in an assemblage, which resembled a burned tree. Then I used charcoal and glued them together in a various sculptural forms and wrote the alphabets of ancient languages on them; Arammaic, Arabic and Syriac. Finally, I sliced wood, stacked the pieces in the shape of trees of various sizes and then burned them. Then, I made a sculpture from the remains. They resembled palm trees when you see them burned on the road. Trees are the history around us, but we don’t see them (they have a history which we don’t see).
Mohamed Elganoby
محمد الجنوبي
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