Video: changing a glass of water into an oak tree
Published on 15 October 2024
Michael Craig-Martin RA talks about his best-known early work, An Oak Tree.
“It’s not a glass of water, it’s an oak tree”
In this radical work of conceptual art, Michael Craig-Martin RA presents a glass of water on a glass shelf accompanied by a text declaring that he had transformed the object into a tree without changing its appearance.
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