The very important first layer is basically the poetry of the streets, the poetry of the
abandoned trees.
There is a sadness in it, but it goes towards recycling.
You know what they make of the trees then when they have the biggest tag on them?
They're just burning it and making energy, so that's one thing and some of the trees
which are not sold, they go to the zoos because apparently the giraffes, camels and the elephants
really like Christmas trees.
It's this contrast of indoor and outdoor and hence the visitor can't enter this room
and has to see the whole construction from the outside, hence the projection on the outer
space and the whole construction of the living room upstairs.
That's inside but you don't have any windows, you don't have any doors and on top of it
you have the Berlin map on the floor, the trees, the TVs are positioned according to
the geography.
Then you see the people walking in Neukölln, they look like this but the tree is there,
you see the people in Spandau walking around, well maybe the crowd is a little bit different
but the trees are the same, they're all over the place.
They're all over the place, they're all over the place, they're all over the place.
How did you get the idea of when you were walking around and the trees and you saw the
little trees?
Well that was kind of lovely because I was playing around with a video camera and I
actually saw the trees first through my camera.
This building is supposed to be since 2011 in the public space in Berlin but now it's
in this hall for the winter so it's really a very nice analogy with a Christmas tree I
like to say.
Actually in 2007 I got in touch with the Berliner Staatsreinigung, they're organizing this collection
every January.
Don't leave me alone.
