“urban trees” examines the relationship between civilization and nature using the single tree as an example for the manipulation of the environment. Within the urban setting trees have been degraded to mere decoration, objects of city planners. Everything is supposed to grow everywhere, but only within a clearly assigned space: iron cages, concrete buckets, recesses digged in boardwalks. But as we may sometimes see and as well in these photographs, nature might be stronger than strict design and strategy, even drywood might come to new life, beyond human planning. Started in 2009 the ongoing project consists of approximately 100 photographs.
