Nurse drone

Year: 2020

Material: Found timber, terracotta pot, copper pipe, calico, Copper beach tree

Dimensions (W/H/D): 500mm x 1800 x 500

Nurse Drone is a mobile apparatus whose function is to support the tree while it takes hold and grows.

To plant the Copper beech, the bottom of the pot must be broken off, and the stakes driven into the ground. As the tree grows Nurse Drone will support the young tree from wind damage etc, as well as slowly degrade and weaken allowing the tree to grow out and beyond it. Copper Beach normally grow to around 25m tall at maturity at which time probably only some wheels and copper pipe will possibly remain.