Sculpture | Ferdinand Facklam

The tree in its natural form and with its attached elements – roots, trunk, branch and leaf – is redeveloped as an abstracted art object.

Vertical and spiral-formed twists and bendings of light fibres shape a braided sculpture of a tree. The artificial tree derives from the ground, just like natural trees, though using light as its only source. A modern interpretation of how technics and nature can blend in with each other.

The difficultness of the draft was to let the shape and pieces remain recognizable. The tree’s morphology is ultimately represented by an exposed rootstock, the anchoring in the ground, the trunk as bearing web and the forking of branches.

The choice of using optical fibre technology as a material, enabled a variety of creating possibilities due to characteristics such as high resiliency and all-round radiant homogenic light optics. The formal dynamics of the tree sculptures with their inter- and dewovenness can be put into effect by side emitting light fibres – light and object combine into a perfect symbiosis.