Artist Statement
Trees are tenacious.
Trees can seem determined.
They will survive in spite of major
environmental and physical obstacles.
Trees in the wild will grow to fill a space;
wildly persistent and with vegetal exuberance;
but sometimes they find themselves thwarted.
Usually trees will manage to overcome barriers
by embracing that which stands in their way.
By enveloping it.
Absorbing it.
Overcoming it.
The city is often
the greatest obstacle
a tree may face.
Most trees in a city
become captives
and are manicured
to a deformed old age.
They remain pertinacious
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