An upside down forest of discarded Christmas Trees.

On the Christmas eve of 2007, I picked up two discarded Christmas trees from the streets of Brooklyn, NY. In the following weeks, I dragged many more into a space, to later hang them upside down from the ceiling with hangman's knot inside the gallery.

Detritus Forest is a requiem from/for what has already lived: Evergreens raised to be adorned, go out of fashion, die and be disposed of. A luscious (yet deceased) inverted forest of discarded Christmas pines swing softly- a poetic symbol for consumption. Detouring from most political art, Detritus Forest does not assign judgement. Instead, it evokes the viewer to question his/her own involvement in an undeniable environmental problem. Composed from by-product of the environmental issue itself, not purchased mediums, Detritus Forest questions what we use as materialists, leaving viewers to evaluate actions, surroundings and priorities.