The Decision Tree

in a studium generale course at UdK, of organic and digital trees. in order to pass the course, prof daniel hromada asked us to plant an organic or digital or artistic tree. i decided that i would plant an artistic tree. 

i planned to cycle from sunrise to sunset in the direction of the sun on the summer solstice, what is perhaps the most auspicious day to be a tree. 

based on computer processes, where decisions are made at each new fork and actions taken based on taht decision, i superimposed this idea onto the city. the streets would act as the frame and i would use the sun to make decisions about which direction to go. 

i went for a test ride a few days before and realized that if i cycled, i would end up in poland before the sun turned round so i decided on walking. i don't even really like walking because i know how much quicker the same journey would take with a bicycle but speed was not really the point & anyway, i thought it an interesting way to take a different temporality into my body. 

i thought a lot about the legibility and availability of a city as a place of human communion and being and as a potential for art. theatres are closed and the street is the only stage available right now. but i didn't spend much time in the city, ending up in the forest for most of the day, which was maybe apt.

i finished the journey 1km from my house where i started.