THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS by Liao Wenfeng

from THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS by Liao Wenfeng

Sequerciani Arte Clima designed by Jumping He

WENFENG LIAO

THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS

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…