Trees communicate, it turns out. Through their roots but also by means of a refined network in which insects, mushrooms, small animals and the wind play a role. They pass on messages to each other, which are also important to us humans, but which our ears are not (yet) attuned to.
‘Messengers’ consists of shapes that are inspired by beehives and wasp nests. Through the cracks in the wood, in the core, haiku-inspired texts are engraved. They refer to the experience of ‘things’ in some indigenous languages: no tree, stone or other object exists on its own, but every ‘thing’ is always ‘doing’, and is related to something or someone else. In this way, not only do the trees speak to each other, but the trees also speak to the wind, the wind to the earthworm, the earthworm to the mushroom. All messages are passed on in the great web. And ideally also understood.
The texts are engraved in Esperanto. An old ideal in which everyone could understand each other.
