Narges Mohammadi on the never-realized ode to a dead chestnut tree

Narges Mohammadi designed a fifteen-meter-high work for a commission centered on a beloved chestnut tree that was to be felled, meant to make way for a new tree. The piece would have traced the contours of the old tree and was built from bricks made by local residents. The committee could not select the plan because the whole would have become too heavy. Mohammadi describes the rejection as a relief, saying that if she had won the commission she would have been very anxious. The article was written by Lieneke Hulshof, and the variable typeface Prophet by Dinamo was used for titles, quotes and captions. Photographs of Mohammadi's work include 'Passing Traces' by Io Sivertsen, 'In the Shadow of the Sun', 'Because you think it gives you hope' and 'A Home In Return for Silver' by Lizzy Zaanen, and 'Concrete Exchange', Stroom Den Haag, 2023, by Naomi Moonlion, courtesy Stroom Den Haag.