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"Lonely Tree, Lonely People" Agieszka Gradzik and Wiktor Szostalo
2008 twigs, branches, sticks, vines and other natural materials

this piece makes me smile whenever i see it. these two artists make installation pieces and this one, located in Poland, really invites people to stand in line with these stick people to hug this tree. these two artists wanted this piece to create the feeling of this tree being the only one left in the world and what the public's reaction would be. it really brings the awareness to what we are really doing to our trees. hopefully we will never have to stand in line to hug the last tree on earth, but with the way that things are going now, i don't think that this idea is so far fetched unfortunately.