Schwayg Main Harts is a 3D printed model of an ancient trunk of an inaccessible part of the Białowieża forest. This replica, essentially a printed 'point cloud' (a 3-dimensional computer captured model describing points in space) is illuminated by its own texture, which changes from the point cloud to the photographic surface of the tree. What remains is pure fiction, an empty shell. This simulated tree sings the original of Nature Boy, namely Yablokoff's original lament Shvayg Main Harts (Be Still My Heart), about loneliness and displacement.
With this the journey that song and tree have made is once again depicted: from original to replica, from reality to illusion.
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3D print & projection, 2018 | Song Alec Kopyt | Sound Berend Dubbe & GT Thomas | Forest on Location was first shown at
Point Cloud, Old Growth in FOAM Amsterdam | made possible by the Mondriaan Foundation, Foam Amsterdam and AMODO
Schwayg Main Harts at Point Cloud, Old Growth, FOAM
Schwayg Main Harts at Point Cloud, Old Growth, FOAM
Schwayg Main Harts at Point Cloud, Old Growth, FOAM
Schwayg Main Harts at The Real of Unreal in Chengdu, China
Schwayg Main Harts at Rencontres Arles, France
Schwayg Main Harts at The Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Schwayg Main Harts at Now is the Time (in the back Phantom Barks) in Wuzhen, China
Schwayg Main Harts at Now is the Time in Wuzhen, China