Walk for green, walk for tree
by WONG Wun Him
Action Art
Nowadays, modern cities are developed everywhere. Being a Hong Kong citizen, we can see busy road with many cars and people. Busy transportation creates many pollutants. Why don’t we walk more? It is good for saving money, health and the environment.
This artwork I would like to hold on the street and need many people walk thought the road and to let the trunk of the tree full of green leaves. The process is very meaningful, as we will record down the process for people to see green and environmental protection is the effort of us with corporation, we can’t protect our earth only by ourselves, but the whole city. To make our place more environmentally friendly is our own responsibilities.
The idea of the artwork is to encourage people walk more, drive less. While we walk more, we are helping the tree to grow more green and fresh leaves. Green and tree are the obvious symbol of environmental protection. Everybody walk more in order to create the beautiful picture of a big green tree.
How to do this work?
Put a big long white carpet (with a printed big tree trunk) on the road between two sides of pedestrian. On 2 sides of pedestrian, we will prepare a black rectangle shape blanket with green painting ink. Every people walk through the road will got a green footprint on it and help us to create green leaves with the painting ink’s footprint.