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Blue Trees
Downtown Seattle, WA
In the summer of 2012 artist Konstantin Dimopoulos painted trees in Seattle with a biologically safe pigmented water to make a statement about how important trees are to our survival.
“Colour is a powerful stimulant, a means of altering perception and defining space and time,” says Dimopoulos. “The fact that blue is a colour that is not naturally identified with trees suggests to the viewer that something unusual, something out of the ordinary has happened. It becomes a magical transformation. In nature colour is used both as a defensive mechanism, a means of protection, and as a mechanism to attract. The Blue Trees attempts to waken a similar response from viewers. It is within this context that the blue denotes sacredness, something reverential.”
Dimopoulos had previously painted trees blue in Vancouver, BC for that city's 2011 Biennale. Other locations have included Richmond, Virginia and Melbourne in the artist’s home country of Australia.
Blue Trees
Downtown Seattle, WA
In the summer of 2012 artist Konstantin Dimopoulos painted trees in Seattle with a biologically safe pigmented water to make a statement about how important trees are to our survival.
“Colour is a powerful stimulant, a means of altering perception and defining space and time,” says Dimopoulos. “The fact that blue is a colour that is not naturally identified with trees suggests to the viewer that something unusual, something out of the ordinary has happened. It becomes a magical transformation. In nature colour is used both as a defensive mechanism, a means of protection, and as a mechanism to attract. The Blue Trees attempts to waken a similar response from viewers. It is within this context that the blue denotes sacredness, something reverential.”
Dimopoulos had previously painted trees blue in Vancouver, BC for that city's 2011 Biennale. Other locations have included Richmond, Virginia and Melbourne in the artist’s home country of Australia.