The location of his temporary intervention is a well-trodden footpath that people walk on every day
without paying any particular attention to it. The path is located ‘in between’; it is neither a
public nor an official path, but a shortcut, levelled over many years by walkers to create a direct
connection.
On the footpath, the artist has arranged coniferous wood boards in a formation of three so that they
evoke the stylised shape of a fir tree. There are eight on the left and eight on the right of the
path, creating the spatial impression of an avenue with 16 trees through which one can walk.
Suddenly, this space ‘in between’, this void, is occupied. You lift your head and experience this
place as new and completely changed.
The ‘Tannenallee’ is made of material that was used to expand flood protection. This makes the
temporary intervention even more ambiguous, standing in its reduced form language but with subtle
links to a wide variety of themes in a very precisely chosen location – and becoming a subtle
memorial to climate change, where the tree speaks for the tree.