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               The 
                Tree of Life 
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            Armory 
              Transformed Into Art Playground  
               
              by Brian Slattery 
              | Oct 16, 2016 3:01 pm 
              Posted 
                to: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts 
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                        "Helping to Restore the Tree of Life", is an 
                        interactive installation by artist Joe Fekieta that invites 
                        the viewer to write a promise that helps restore the tree 
                        of life. The promises are written on one of 13 different 
                        green paper tree leaves which is then hung on a branch 
                        with a wooden clothespin. The installation is constructed 
                        of eight dead saplings with cable wire encircling the 
                        branches. The branches emerge from a washing machine with 
                        the planet Earth painted on three sides with a hundred 
                        wire cable plugs spreading out from the bottom of the 
                        washing machine, symbolizing how wired our planet has 
                        become. 
                         
                         
                       
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               Copyright: 
                Joseph Fekieta 2017 
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