The exhibition “Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project in Hara Museum Arc, which was held prior to tree planting from November 2004 through January 2005, was over and on 14th of May, 4 months after the exhibition, the seedling from the bombed tree was planted in the premises of the museum.
On the day of the tree planting ceremony, a few workshops were held with the keywords such as “Life”, “Revival” and “Future.” During the early morning workshop conducted by Makiko Matsuoka from Matusoka Art Studio, children drew the morning landscape of the ranch with the persimmon tree and the workshop was broadcast live on NHK. Tree doctor Mr. Masayuki Ebinuma and Mr. Nobuo Koike gave a talk on the persimmon tree and life during “Let’s talk with ‘Tree Doctor'” workshop. At the workshop “Let’s try to ‘revive’ – from tree to tree,” the participants used scrap wood that they found in the premises and together with origami pieces and paper balloons they made 3 collage works of persimmon trees. On the leaves of the trees, messages for “peace” by the children are written.
At the ceremony, the trees that were “revived” during the workshop were set out around the seedling from the bombed tree. Tree planting was carried out by the children who took part in the ceremony and they took turns in covering the root with soil. A workshop was held after the ceremony too and a picture-card show “Persimmon parent and child” by artist Anken Kidani was performed at the garden of the museum. A large persimmon tree picture on the wall inside the museum which was created during the workshop in November last year was displayed for this occasion and the three “revived” trees were also exhibited.
