Alper Nakri is a designer who questions what we are capable of re-building with the neglected material, traditional, and natural resources. His designs often emerge from materials that are emblematic of a unique resilience to disappearance because of their emotional or historical charge, such as the main piece of this installation: a slice of the trunk of a Californian Pepper Tree (Anacardiaceae) that has lived in an acquaintance's backyard. By making the impressive durability of LED lighting meet the long lifespan of the re-purposed trunk in an asymmetrical composition hanging above our heads, the artist evokes the idea of time dilation and invites the audience to consider the passage of time from the perspective of harmonious co-existence. Both objects retain their internal clocks while functioning a new purpose as a compound unit, and the title of the piece tells the story of this heavily material yet conceptually ethereal encounter.
