Video: Ghosts of Christmas. Christmas tree installation by Michael Neff
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Story" tells the story of how the ghosts of Christmas come to the reclusive curmudgeon Ebeneiser Scrooge on the night before the main Christian holiday, which takes him to the past, present and future. Here comes the New York artist Michael Neff called "the ghosts of Christmas" felled treesscattered throughout the city after the end of the holidays. It was from them that he created an unusual installation.
Not every Christmas tree in the world is lucky enough to find its new life after the holidays, like a tree made from LEGO bricks, installed at St Pancras Station in London. Most of them will either turn into fertilizers, or firewood, or even lie on the street for months, waiting for utility workers.
Here is one of the latest American artist Michael Neff and created his installation. He collected a dozen trees lying on the streets, drove them under an overpass in New York's North Brooklyn area and hung them at the same level on ropes above the ground.
As a result, residents and guests of this area (and there are many entertainment establishments, bars and restaurants) will be able to admire the ghosts of Christmas for some time - discarded Christmas trees swaying in the wind under the bridge. Either they are gallows, or, indeed, ghosts.
Michael Neff himself explains the meaning of this Christmas tree installation by his desire to clearly show the consumer structure of modern society, which simply throws out the things it doesn’t need, instead of finding a new use for them, or at least giving it up for recycling.
Of particular interest is the time that this installation from Michael Neff is destined to survive. After all, sometimes it happens that Christmas trees on the streets of New York lie for several weeks after the New Year. The interesting thing is how many days they will spend as an installation, which is precisely created in order to draw attention to the problem.
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