Integral to the production of oxygen to sustain life on Earth and considered by many people, artists and religions, as a symbol of life, trees are highly regarded.

Created from natural raw elements iron and copper in the man-made forms of wire and sheet metal the tree represents changes made in nature by human intervention. Inspired by Goldsworthy’s art involving the use of natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures that draw out the character of their environment. The tree reverses the roles of man v nature by using synthetic material that left outside in natural surroundings will live. As the tree weathers it’s transformed from an ‘autumn tree’, with orange leaves and dark trunk into a ‘summer tree’, with green leaves and brown trunk. Although the tree is living it is due to the destruction of corroding, connoting the need for man to reverse its negative impact on the natural world – the tree is held to ransom by the perpetual force of nature which is amplified as man increases its destructive demeanour. Failure to reduce man’s prolonged processes on the planet and the tree’s exposure to the weather the tree will eventually die – its delicate leaves will drop off leaving a bare tree, denoting destruction of life by man’s greed, mechanisation and materialism.