“When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse wrote a century ago, “then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” On October 3, Paola will join Pioneer Works for a planting ceremony for "Tree of 40 Fruit: The New York Apples" by artist Sam Van Aken: a single tree grafted to bloom dozens of different blossoms and birth dozens of different apple varieties, all cultivated in the five boroughs of New York City over the past two centuries, created for Pioneer Works. The ceremony features an original choral invocation by Paola, sung as a blessing song for the tree by Constellation Chor, an enchanted sound installation by composer Sxip Shirey, and a Bulgarian folk song serenading the symbology of apples performed by vocalist Vlada Tomova and her traditional Bulgarian folk ensemble. Free, limited-edition face masks will be offered featuring natural history paintings of apples from 1811. The event is curated and hosted by Maria Popova.
Image info: Artist's planning diagram of "Tree 71"
Sam Van Aken courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Art
“When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse wrote a century ago, “then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” On October 3, Paola will join Pioneer Works for a planting ceremony for "Tree of 40 Fruit: The New York Apples" by artist Sam Van Aken: a single tree grafted to bloom dozens of different blossoms and birth dozens of different apple varieties, all cultivated in the five boroughs of New York City over the past two centuries, created for Pioneer Works. The ceremony features an original choral invocation by Paola, sung as a blessing song for the tree by Constellation Chor, an enchanted sound installation by composer Sxip Shirey, and a Bulgarian folk song serenading the symbology of apples performed by vocalist Vlada Tomova and her traditional Bulgarian folk ensemble. Free, limited-edition face masks will be offered featuring natural history paintings of apples from 1811. The event is curated and hosted by Maria Popova.
Image info: Artist's planning diagram of "Tree 71"
Sam Van Aken courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Art
“When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse wrote a century ago, “then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” On October 3, Paola will join Pioneer Works for a planting ceremony for "Tree of 40 Fruit: The New York Apples" by artist Sam Van Aken: a single tree grafted to bloom dozens of different blossoms and birth dozens of different apple varieties, all cultivated in the five boroughs of New York City over the past two centuries, created for Pioneer Works. The ceremony features an original choral invocation by Paola, sung as a blessing song for the tree by Constellation Chor, an enchanted sound installation by composer Sxip Shirey, and a Bulgarian folk song serenading the symbology of apples performed by vocalist Vlada Tomova and her traditional Bulgarian folk ensemble. Free, limited-edition face masks will be offered featuring natural history paintings of apples from 1811. The event is curated and hosted by Maria Popova.
Image info: Artist's planning diagram of "Tree 71"
Sam Van Aken courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Art
