WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Natural Capital: John Grade’s Dazzling, Decomposing Artworks
by Anna Bruce-Lockhart, January 9, 2017
“I think people might find it surprisingly rewarding to pause and participate in the sculpture – even very briefly.”
His giant tree artwork, Middle Fork, will be on show at the Annual Meeting at Davos this month, thanks to a joint collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and World Economic Forum. More than 2,000 people have worked on the enormous wooden sculpture – which, after its exhibition at various venues, will be returned to the forest and allowed to disintegrate.
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