1993 construction (Sept. -Oct.), transplanting & installation (November)
1994 became a permanent public sculpture - the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (January)
1995 the small piazza was repaved and motorized circulation was prohibited. Has become since a tourist site with hundreds of thousands visitors per year.
Key Meanings: Enracinement- Deracinement' , the last 'Jaffa Orange', Genius Loci, lost orange groves, minimal life unit, new- lighter existence
Artist Statement: Is 'Deracinement' the big sickness of our times? Can uprooted existence, established so definitely through international economics, communication & technology produce a new, lighter genuine aesthetic? My 'growing sculptures' do not try to answer these questions. They rather show a 'rooted - uprooted' state while going on living, much as we do, growing into an unclear future.
