This work consists of a plant being stripped of its leaves 10 at a time. This gradual destruction was well document. Each set of 10 leaves were collected in the baggy and tally marks were taken to determine exactly how many were removed altogether.
Once this process had finished, a book was compiled consisting of the documentation process, and the leaves, numbered and logged. This book "Death of a Plant" became the art object.
This work was made thinking as to the rights i have as a human. Do i have the right to do this to a plant because i have bought it? Does monetary ownership grant permission to this kind of destruction?
What makes this not just an act of calculated destruction, is that the plant was displayed with the book, showing that not only had I destroyed this plant, I had nursed it back to health. This renewable object led me to question works in which I use my own body as a canvas. I have the right to alter my body as I choose. In "Square Hair", I'm using another renewable material, hair.
