Imagination Tree

(33"x 33") 2001, 2016

Plaster, metal, epoxy

This little tree spreads creativity by using tentacled, and prehensile roots to pluck seeds from its own blossom. It then sticks it's root through the nostril of newborn creatures to

deposit the seed into the creatures frontal lobe.
Sometimes it inserts 2 seeds by mistake and it results in people like Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein. And if it isn’t feeling well, and really screws up, it creates rather unimaginative,

evil people like Hitler .  .  . or Piers Morgan.