Tree… #2
(2011)
from the Tree abroad series
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Measurements
- 104.1 × 152.4 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Mongolia
- Edition
- artist's proof 2/3
- Accession Number
- 2015.483
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Gjergja Family, 2015
© Myoung Ho Lee, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York - Gallery location
- Members' Lounge
Ground Level, NGV International - About this work
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Myoung Ho Lee began to photograph trees in 2004. He wanted to reposition them so that they were not simply almost- unnoticeable environmental elements; rather he wanted to celebrate unique beauty in the natural world. As he describes it: ‘It’s as if the tree unites all: the ground, the sky and man in between. In East Asian philosophy the universe breaks down into three parts: Chun-Ji-In. Chun means the sky, Ji means the ground, and In means human. Since a tree connects all three, I feel very much that a tree is like a universe’.