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The Infinite, the Absolute seems to have sometimes experienced. - Unfortunately, it only seems that it is: If you believe in "capturing" a loved one, it disappears, remains incomprehensible. And yet these moments leave traces in a work of art. Technological advances in recent decades, very quickly, the "image of the world" has changed. It also has a lot to do with size: It's amazing how similar micro and macro structures are, for example, small and large are suddenly congruent! Or maybe neurobiology is precisely the secret of consciousness - being? - solve.

Free will doesn't seem to be just a certain combination of structures. If only one - admittedly unique - is structural in this world, our mass turns into a different structure after death, but remains unchanged. Whether you want to look after Newton's conservation law or free after Heraclitus, everything flows, so the result is still a cycle, something absolute that our microbiological processes, as well as with the surrounding unimaginable galaxies. Although scientists and artists work with different tools - or forms of knowledge - but ultimately, and aim to reveal the world, the so-called "absolute truth".

Just like science, art is a form of appropriation of the world; Therefore, since the Enlightenment counts art - like aesthetics - to in the sciences. If someone is a "great" artist, less dependent than his gift of vision, recognizing his technical skills. If you want to make a drawing, a copy of something, it requires looking at it very carefully. It may sound trite, but it is difficult. This, on the one hand, is part of the artist himself, on the other hand - and this is surprising - to reveal the connections between himself and the "thing".

Let's take the example of a tree. Today we know that the cellular and biochemical processes in a tree and people are similar. Planting trees, sexually reproducing, growing, aging, in competition with each other and move even - though not from their location - they respond to stimuli, according to information transmitted by hormones.

Paracelsus wrote: "This plant is similar to people." Visually, this parable can be well read: A vertical trunk on which the head rests, branches stretch like hands, sheets like fingers into the room. And one leaf: This is again, and therefore our own takes on the veins, the structure of the tree, because even with all its small veins and pores, they resemble the leaves of human skin.

The rather already reduced rune symbol of the German Tree of Life expresses all this, consists of signs for women and men, evokes associations with the root and crown. People like a tree are individual. So unique each so little "hermit" is one of them. Trees take up space, but do it also. Is one in itself a cosmos for all kinds of life, like our earth, but this is only a part of " Milky Way": Forest.

Man and tree depend on the climate. Not until the end of the Ice Age could even begin the development that "our culture" had sufficient reason to offer. But even then, it took several thousand years to be able to form a certain civilization between almost infinitely large forests due to climate change and the invention of bronze in the second millennium BC. If the fuel Construction Materials, enclosures for animals, feed or funds, the forest was indispensable for the extraction of ore, glass, paper, weapons, clothing and much more.

From this more differentiated use of wood is the vast knowledge and diversity of specific professions that form the basis for the world today of the leading technological role of the "core of Europe", developed after the time of migration in the Middle Ages.

Initially, the forest was considered a no man's land, but has grown with population shrinkage and private ownership. The right to use the free urban forest has only limited both the church and the nobility learning more and more solid structures, resulting in increased economic importance of the forests of the strong.

So much wood has been the basis for the cultural life and economic life that we often refer to as European cultural history century as "wooden age". In folklore, numerous traditions endured that tells the dazzling facet of the "tree of history". Be macabre images of lynchings under edge trees, declarations of love to the maypole chosen, or just juicy sayings like "on the oaks of the best ham to grow," because acorns for pigs were widespread. Countless anecdotes of the course of the century always describe new priorities; initially very archaic, and then more and more in an ecclesiastical context, where God's gifts of the forest were praised, to eventually move on to the hunting of the nobility.

The latest romanticism praised the ideal of nature in the tree, but now the strong economic exploitation of the forests created completely different facts: clear-cutting and severe soil erosion were the flip side of the restoration that was to be on call for the sustainable development of forestry at the end of the century.

Much has changed since then, but today it is necessary to resurrect "climatic catastrophes" in order to awaken the idea that the thoughtless exploitation of nature can become a dead end for man. Many peoples led the existence of man himself on a tree and forest and revered the trees as gods. Sacred groves were places of meetings, sacrifices and judgments. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Edda saga are probably the best-known examples of countless myths that report the divine from trees.

Ask and Embla, ash and elm, were found as propellants, the aesir breathed life, soul, warmth and color, so that man and woman stood up. Tacitus reports of the German cult of the tree: "Their forests bind them, and with the gods they call this distant, inevitable being, which sees only their pious shudder."

Even goblins, gnomes and trolls did not want to give way, fairies, elves and nymphs remained stubborn, so that the church fathers were forced to consider them "poor souls" under their wing. The contradictions remained, and even Bernhard of Clairvaux remarked: "Trees and stones will teach you what no one will tell you." This also includes a branch of the Gothic dome, which is a petrified reflection of the forest, which was thought to have long been overcome.

The compromise was the worship of Mary, thanks to which many indestructible mystical trees were easily revised. Already Isaiah compared Mary to a tree and Jesus to its fruit, so that under this interpretation cotton went straight into fashion and even churches were built around trees.

In principle, the tree is not alien to Christianity. Already in the Book of Genesis "God is the Lord", may the Lord grow from the tree of trees, all kinds of trees, tempting to look at and with delicious fruits but in the middle of the garden is the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Of death. The complex is this relationship, but through the death of Christ on the cross, they give hope for salvation, so they form the core of the Christian faith. Again and again it is pointed out that the cross of Christ was built from the wood of the tree of knowledge. Tree species vary considerably, but as in many earlier cultures, individual trees have evolved into specific symbols over the course of history.

When the oak tree was once given to Zeus, the Teutons worshiped the thorn-god Thor, now they stood for the cross and the stability of the Christian faith. Other trees also point to themselves: acacia means immortality human soul, holly for a thorny crown and fir for heavenly selection and patience. While lanterns vouch for strength and protection by faith, cedars and cypresses proclaim the eternal reign of God.

The history of art, as an expression of this content, is richly populated with trees. But not only in the visual arts, in which individual tasks tree species have received special significance, but also in poetry, trees have usually been introduced as a symbol of becoming and disappearing. Therefore, it is interesting to attract trees, books and runes.

Although it is assumed that the original stamps of the first Gutenberg seal were carved from beech wood, the true connection is revealed in the meaning of our "writing". This word goes back to Old High German and shows that the Germanic rune alphabet was written in beech sticks, which are especially well suited for this purpose in a smooth chest. They first appeared with the Germanic goddess Idun, who scrawled her husband's rune into the tongue that gave him magical power words. Is it a coincidence that even paper grows from trees?

Language, writing and literature; it all belongs together - but the trees also tell a story. In general, trees repeatedly experience human life. If only broken here, all of these connections resonate in a cycle of "tree images". On the real surface, the bark of specific trees is depicted in relief, and on the sides - under the thickness of the bark, cut wooden surface.

Bark structures are the theme of trees. In their format and detailed execution, they are annoying, so similar to nature that it interrogates the viewer's boundary with a natural or artificial object. Despite all the similarities with nature, there is no bark represented there. The prerequisite is taking his project. Thus the enjoyment of the tactile is at least equivalent to ordinary sensual and intellectual grasping. These structures, like a work of art, go far beyond themselves, unexpected questions arise unexpectedly, which are by no means purely scientific.

For the viewer and his own being depends on the dialogue with the images, the end of which is open. This is again an idea of ​​the structure of the cortex. However, due to the three-dimensional appearance the surface is preserved, almost abstract images are created that leave room for interpretation. The lightness of the drawing contrasts with the archaic theme. Even though the drawings are one-to-one, the question is quickly asked about measurement as it can be as good as macro or micro structures, landscapes or soil topography or whatever they associate as they show as many images as possible. The viewer and his structure, as well as itself.