Alix Spooren



Limited Edition Forest I.

installation with necklaces
dried leaves, paper pulp, wood, found nylon thread, steel
2025



In a world where everything is assigned a price, I explore the relationship between humans and nature. The installation consists of scented, tree-shaped air fresheners made from fallen leaves of the American oak and dead wood. Visitors can buy them as souvenirs. With every tree sold, a piece of the forest disappears — a subtle yet pointed commentary on capitalism and our desire to control or possess nature. The scented trees reference the artificial nature we use to make our surroundings more pleasant, while real nature steadily vanishes.

The work emerged from a personal search for ecological materials and the need to create something both meaningful and critical. Limited Edition Forest is a work about loss and remembrance, but also about how we try to hold on to what is slowly slipping away. You can smell the forest that is gradually disappearing.




Limited Edition Forest II.

postcards and poster
handmade recycled paper, ink
2025





Visitors are  invited to write a memory of the forest on a postcard. Together, these postcards form a collective memory, a growing archive of personal connections to a landscape that is becoming increasingly rare. The postcard as a medium also raises questions about nostalgia and the desire to hold on to something tangible from a place.









Limited Edition Forest III.

brooches
scrap wood, handmade recycled paper, ink, 
varnish, sterling silver
2025



       
      
















Alongside the scented trees, the work also includes a series of brooches. Small, wearable objects that emerge from the same material research. They are made from leftover wood from the scented trees and photographs of the forest, printed on handmade paper. Each brooch is the size of a passport photo, a deliberate reference to identity: that of the artist, but also of humans in relation 
to its environment. The brooches function as miniature portraits of the forest: intimate memory objects that make our personal and collective connection to nature tangible. They are both a memory and a statement: wearable fragments of a disappearing world.