I came across a tree in Llessui that had been felled because it was in danger of falling onto a family home. Its complex structure fascinated me: the trunk branched repeatedly into a geometry that made its overall volume difficult to imagine. I wondered whether it would be possible to know the tree well enough to divide it into seven parts of precisely equal volume.
A friend and I spent a week measuring and labelling its branches, recording which ones we had already measured. We then used the data to construct a three-dimensional model. A computational calculation determined where the tree should be cut to produce seven equal volumes. The work was first exhibited at ADN Galeria, after which the pieces embarked on a physical journey in which time, transport, humidity and weather gradually altered the apparent precision of the original calculation.
What began as a geometric problem became a record of the limits of measurement: the seven volumes were equal only at a particular moment in time.
