These sculptures by Leonardo Drew consist of jagged tree trunks and thousands of pieces of cut wood. These monumental installations are represented as abstract landscapes that undulate and contract through a combination of natural and man-made shapes.

The author finds inspiration in the urban environment and collects relics that exist in the natural and industrial worlds. Although he modified these raw materials, they always retained their original identity, because his art is related to the cycle of life - birth, death and rebirth. His materials are born in the world, either dead or simply discarded, and then discovered by the artist, properly buried in his studio, and then transformed into a reborn new life in his sculpture.

◎ By manipulating wood and other objects to weather and age them, the colorless wood creates the fallow season of nature and the depressed atmosphere of environmental collapse. The sculpture re-engenders the tension of life in wood through the combination of regular geometry and irregular natural forms.

 

Yoko Ono: And I liked that idea that we created something out of a sharp nothing, that's a dangerous thing. It was beautiful like a jewel, actually, for me. And I thought, "I just want to make something out of it, you know."

Christophe Cherix: Back in New York in 1965, she presented the piece on the roof of her apartment in the West Village, where she sold pieces of sea-worn glass labeled with past and future mornings.

Yoko Ono: And it was a cold morning, and it was very early morning. We did it, like, when the sun was coming up. And on a table I had a thing that I made – which was all the worn glasses on it. And underneath the worn glass, I would have then a date. Some dates were from the past, and some dates were in the future. Maybe that particular date meant something to them, or maybe not.

But you know, some people come to me and say, "Did you know that was my birthday?" or, "Did you know that we got married that day?" or something, without knowing it or whatever. And it seems like every date means something to somebody.

I see my time passing with the seasons The Universe is a tree shedding and renewing, with the eternal seeded in an ending

Every second runs silently

In space

Every life will pass, and within each life that passes, returning in the next glance

The 16th chapter of the Tao Te Ching says: "All things arise together, and I observe their return. They grow and flourish, and then return to their roots. Returning to the roots is called tranquility; this is known as returning to one's destiny."