Gray Tree
Gray Tree is a collaboration with Michigan-based cellist Andres Ayerbe, which started over a zoom meeting during quarantine. It is based on Piet Mondrian’s Gray Tree, 1911, oil on canvas. It started out as a reflection on the ominous feeling of being trapped by an invisible enemy, but as the project unfolded, the tree started to remind me of the growth that can be obtained when persisting through unexpected obstacles.
- Ensemble
- Solo Cello
- Duration
- c. 6 minutes
- Year
- 2020
- Dedication
- for Andres Ayerbe
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Gray Tree
Piet Mondrian, 1912 • oil on canvas
Gray Tree is one of the first paintings in which Mondrian applied to a natural subject the principles of cubist composition that he was in the process of assimilating and working out in his own way.