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Thomas Horak fabricates replicas of seemingly plausible natural scenes using materials that have been through human processes. He constructs a dysfunctional simulation of nature. In the piece “Glühbirnen” which is the German word for lightbulb and literally translates to “Glowing Pear,” Horak portrays the struggle to “make things work.” The stark tree is hung with glass pears wired to an electric generator which initially refuses to function. Once it is finally running, the fruit bulbs tentatively flicker to life before their glow smoothens. With time, one by one the lightbulbs fall off the tree to the ground, like ripe pears. This crude replication of a tree bearing fruit is stripped of the original purpose of procreating, for the benefit of human pleasure.
Filmed in the Campsies South of Strathblane 55.978° -4.303°
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