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THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS by Liao Wenfeng
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Sequerciani Arte Clima designed by Jumping He
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THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS
photos by Liao Wenfeng, Bignia Wehrli and Li Zhenhua
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WENFENG LIAO
THE ROOTS WITHOUT THE ROOTS
At first I wanted to find mushrooms in the forest in sequerciani. I was walking on a road, or maybe a dry river bed with forests on either side. I found a kind of mushroom that grows at the junction of the trunk and the roots. Then I noticed these tree roots. They can be washed away by the rain, or eaten by insects, or decomposed by fungi and scattered on the river bed. I collected about thirty tree roots and brought them sequerciani to Berlin. Now, I'm starting to portray them…
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Searching for the roots in Sequerciani
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The roots at home in Berlin
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Drawings (on going, 8 examples), watercolor on paper, each 70 x 50 cm, 2021
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Bignia and I in Sequerciani, October 2021, photo by Li Zhenhua
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Liao Wenfeng & Bignia Wehrli, Sequerciani 2021
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