“... in the Yoruba religion, Changó is the spirit of music, of lightning and thunder. He is the most beautiful and seductive of all spirits and prefers to live in the crowns of the highest palm trees.There he appears in his most threatening form and eavesdrops on the world.With this story, some people in Cuba explain the force of destruction in which lightning hits the high palm trees...”
The metal palm trees are titled “Neusilber”.They are finely elaborated reproductions of the palm species “Washingtonia Robusta” in aluminum and stainless steel.This kind of palm is usually found lining a vast number of streets, boardwalks and paths in the southern metropoles of the USA. Instead of skyscrapers, their powerful crowns rise up to 35 m in height into the sky, defining the skyline.Thus, the palm trees became an icon for Californian cities.
The size of the palm trees has been scaled down to about 3.50 meters in Zink Yi’s installation, the sharp-edged filigree leaves of their crowns, otherwise inaccessible to people, becoming easily experienced. With his installation, Zink Yi generates an atmosphere of cool urbanism between a realism faithful to nature and an idealized artificiality.

“... in the Yoruba religion, Changó is the spirit of music, of lightning and thunder. He is the most beautiful and seductive of all spirits and prefers to live in the crowns of the highest palm trees.There he appears in his most threatening form and eavesdrops on the world.With this story, some people in Cuba explain the force of destruction in which lightning hits the high palm trees...”
The metal palm trees are titled “Neusilber”.They are finely elaborated reproductions of the palm species “Washingtonia Robusta” in aluminum and stainless steel.This kind of palm is usually found lining a vast number of streets, boardwalks and paths in the southern metropoles of the USA. Instead of skyscrapers, their powerful crowns rise up to 35 m in height into the sky, defining the skyline.Thus, the palm trees became an icon for Californian cities.
The size of the palm trees has been scaled down to about 3.50 meters in Zink Yi’s installation, the sharp-edged filigree leaves of their crowns, otherwise inaccessible to people, becoming easily experienced. With his installation, Zink Yi generates an atmosphere of cool urbanism between a realism faithful to nature and an idealized artificiality.