THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS
WENFENG LIAO
At first I wanted to find mushrooms in the forest in sequerciani. I was walking on a road, or maybe a dry river bed with forests on either side. I found a kind of mushroom that grows at the junction of the trunk and the roots. Then I noticed these tree roots. They can be washed away by the rain, or eaten by insects, or decomposed by fungi and scattered on the river bed. I collected about thirty tree roots and brought them sequerciani to Berlin. Now, I'm starting to portray them…
Searching for the roots in sequerciani
The roots at home in Berlin
Drawings (on going, 8 examples), watercolor on paper, each 70 x 50 cm, 2021
Bignia and I in sequerciani, October 2021, photo by Li Zhenhua
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