balancing poetree by j+a vignjevic from france

Balancing poeTree is an architectural metaphor which celebrates life, keeps memories and invites gathering and peace. It brings us to a point where we question our existence, our relationship with life and death, our relationship with ourselves and our close ones, and our relationship with the environment and Nature.
Its fragile, balancing appearance brings into question temporality of life.

Three elements circle - balloon - tree, are bundled in a fragile, elusive, balancing architectural installation, which is turned into its own antipode, by its temporal and formal ephemerality. Such dematerialized architectural form becomes a paradigm of an anti-object. Through its own unstable and paradoxical structure, it examines other opposite phenomena, such as life and death, sky and ground, reality and mystery, visible and invisible, natural and artificial.

Circular transparent canopy is a symbol of a 'window' into the sky, a fragment of horizon, which defines the space underneath that calls for a meeting, gathering and peace.

Balloon, illogically, is the main structural element, which raises and 'links' the structure to the sky; making it, at the same time, stable and elusive. It is not the illusion or a trick, but the real structure that caries the circular canopy.
The balloon is a metaphor for playing and walking on the edge between reality and dreams, between existence and disappearance, between knowledge and childhood naivety.

Tree is a metaphor of the tree of life, family tree, wisdom and memories. Tree is also a symbol of attachment to the ground and verticality to the sky (axis mundi, axe that connects spiritual and material world); it is an invitation to reconsider our existence.
Thread-tree connects the circular canopy to the ground, providing a subtle link between the form and the ground. Thread, as an essential element of the tree, emphasizes the line instead of form, dematerializing the image of the tree, turning the real tree shape into its trace and imagined archetype.

In a spirit of relating to the natural landscape, the individual graves are conceived as mirrored monoliths, as a mimicry form in a landscape, reflecting the texture of the grass in its own, highlighting once again the dual nature of the material world around us.