The Persistent Life of the Karl Marx Tree Marker
November 23, 2008
Sarah Elliot holding the most recent issue of The Kaweah Commonwealth newspaper (2008), and right John Elliot holding the first issue of the original Kaweah Commonwealth newspaper (1890)
On Monday November 17th I drove a sculpture called Karl Marx Tree Marker, down to the offices of the The Kaweah Commonwealth a weekly newspaper of Three Rivers and all of Kaweah Country, California. I invited the French artist Aurelien Froment to come with me, both to help me photograph the sculpture in the offices of the Kaweah Commonwealth, and also to see the huge sequoia trees—giants symbolizing the hopes and failures of American westward idealism—in the Sequoia National Park nearby.
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Categories: Projects. Tags: Aurelien Froment, Communes, Karl Marx Tree, Kaweah, Sculpture, Socialism.