GALLOW TREE is a land art installation created from oak trunks rescued from being burned after the construction of a small road in Poland. The discarded wood, once part of a living landscape, was connected with a steel chain and suspended from an old oak tree.
The work transforms a material considered useless into a suspended body: neither fully dead nor returned to nature. The tree becomes both support and witness, holding the remains of another tree in a gesture that evokes care, violence, memory and execution.
GALLOW TREE reflects on the loss of forests, the extraction of natural resources and the fragile value assigned to non-human life. What is treated as waste becomes a sign of ecological grief and resistance.
Project Information
Artist: k.ada / Ada Kobusiewicz
Title: GALLOW TREE
Year: [insert year]
Category: land art / site-specific installation
Location: Poland
Materials: oak trunks, steel chain, living oak tree
Publication: RITA BAUMk.ada