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| Greetings From Jerusalem Avenue
public project
2002, the artificial palm tree placed at the intersection of Aleje Jerozolimskie (Jerusalem Avenue) and Nowy Swiat (New World) streets, Warsaw, Poland |
Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue (public project)
[how the palm tree came to be]
First, I wanted to sculpt the trunk and buy the leaves
in Hong Kong. The result of my visits to a Warsaw greenhouse
[yes, yes, the vision of making a casting from a real trunk]
was only bunch of photographs. Maybe that's O. K. In that way, only a palm-tree
like sculpture would be created.
Then, we imagined the palm
tree by slowly building a model of the de Gaulle Roundabout and
its vicinity. It was taking us an awful long time.
The palm tree was produced in
Escondido, by the hands of Ron Pecoff and his two Mexican workers.
The factory of the palm trees is called Pecoff Brothers Nursery.
During its manufacturing Michał Rudnicki was in constant electronic
and telephone contact with Mr. Pecoff. The inches and feet made
it a little difficult to understand each other. All became clear
when Michał Rudnicki flew to Escondido. The palm tree turned
out to be so big that - in his relation - it was
on a slant on the floor of the factory but its ends were still
sticking outside the building.
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