Neha Choksi's sculpture Simply Reconstituted presents a simplified and idealized form of a tree in a manner that might be imagined by a child. The stump is cast from sawdust that blends together the wood of numerous harvested, processed trees. The life histories of felled cherry, oak, mahogany and poplar trees in a forest are brought together into a single hybrid story. As a form, the trunk itself is no longer a living thing, but the remainder of a tree. Choksi is interested in the ambivalence of this symbol of death that is in turn created from other dead trees.
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Simply Reconstituted (Tree Stump), 2003
cherry, oak, mahogany, poplar, other woods, wood glue, plaster
18" x 36" x 36"
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Glyndor
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