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Tree of Heaven 7
2016
nickel-plated bronze and mirrored blown glass
Horn's Tree of Heaven series is titled after the common name of Ailanthus altissima, a tree native to China with a long cultural history. The sculpture's form, however, references the work of Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), a German zoologist, naturalist, and philosopher whose illustrated book Kunstformen der natur (Art Forms of Nature) is a regular source of inspiration for Horn. Echoing Haeckel's images of lichens, Tree of Heaven 7 has tiny branches and flat leaf-like structures arranged in bursting rosettes, adorned with opulent blown glass "pearls," that spreads like a living creature across the wall.
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