Cherry Blossom Live Event
November 15, 2011
By Jocelyne Prince
This video documentation is of a live event held at K-Arts in Seoul, Korea. A makeshift tree construction is covered with hot glass “clouds”. Four teams of Korean women glass blowers work to the sounds of French musette music. They are producing mold blown glass that is then placed, while still hot, on the limbs of the tree. The performance is an attempt to re-enact the Asian phenomena of cherry blossom viewing.
Due to the short but intense life span of the cherry blossom, Buddhists liken it to mortality, to the ephemeral and temporal conditions of life. Similarly much of the hot glass breaks as the tree is covered with glass parts; the tree ignites with small fires – a proverbial burning bush.
Cherry Blossom Live Event from jocelyne prince on Vimeo.
