From natural to unnatural

Wood is a natural resource. When this resource is cut and shaped in order to make buildings, it becomes unnatural, to an extent. Nature has a way of taking over and shaping its surrounds to fit the purpose it serves. The sculpture, Tetra House N-3, W26 Project, by Tadashi Kawamata (262) could be seen as an interpretation of nature (wood) being cut and shaped to meet the purpose of potential builders, but rather than creating a functional structure, the domesticated wood has been utilized by Kawamata to create art. The reason this is interesting is because the wood started out naturally, was touched by humans and re-purposed for domesticated purposes, but then used to take over and obstruct a building. This is a synthetic version, created by Kawamata, of what nature can do to structures that are not tended to. In time, nature finds a way to take over and reclaim what once belonged to it.