Wind Installation (風の木,Kaze no ki)
Working outwards from a central open space in a field overlooking the view of Mount Fuji and the valley, Anne Leigniel effectively draws lines with 4 metre high bamboo rods that are attached to white chords… Arranged in a circle like the moon, these extending rods and lines “fish” their way high up onto tree branches and some lines go out from the bamboo shoots in the landscape…. The direction is multi-directional and like antenna, these delicate lines emanating out from a central point… are equally influenced by the movement of the trees in response to the winds… As each tree varies in size, the effects of the wind vary… Each line moves differently, in variation with the others… As Leigniel comments, “The sculpture moves like a mobile that links the earth to the sky. It’s a playful process, a poetics of balance, that expresses a fragility of being ” Trees, a generator of the oxygen necessary for life, become the media, the actor, and the agent of change and conductor of this visual natural artwork.
John K Grande 2017