Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ “The Blue Trees” at peabodyessex installation is an effort to draw more public awareness to deforestation by coloring trees an eye-catching electric blue.
“I love that it’s activating people to participate with trees, with the natural world,” Bruce said. “It’s a long-sustained life passion of mine to get people to pay more attention to the world around them, and in turn, to the world within them. [Dimopoulos] has been doing this work for a long time, and seen that this sparks people.”
“Color is a powerful stimulant, a means of altering perception and defining space… In nature, color is used both as a defensive mechanism, a means of protection, and as a mechanism to attract. [This] attempts to waken a similar response,” he says. “By asking why are the trees blue, we can then explain their importance to the ecosystems and to our own survival.”
Bruce grew up an only child in Arnold, California, in the middle of a national forest. “The forest was my friend. Cedar trees had a different personality than black oaks, versus Ponderosa pines. I had an intimate relationship with them.” “I love that you get to collaborate with Mother Nature directly. The idea of being able to collaborate with trees is really lovely,” Bruce says of carrying out “The Blue Trees” installation. “I love that it’s this large collaboration. It’s a unifier — not just with other human beings, but other creatures: the trees themselves.
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