Alix Spooren
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.
My 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.
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