"The bird is a worker without any tools. He has neither the squirrel's hands nor the beaver's teeth. Its only tool is its own body, its breast pushing against objects and keeping them still until it's made them obedient, accepting, breaded together and forced into something new.

The tool that gives the nest its circular form is nothing other than the bird's body. By continually twisting around and pushing the walls from all sides, the bird is able to form this circle. Like a breathing lathe, the female bird creates her house. The male brings the shapeless material to the nest and holds the blades of grass in place. The female makes a blanket of these by pushing against them.

The house, it is the actual person, its form and its most immediate desire; I want to say its suffering. The results are only possible through the incessant pushing with the breast. To achieve and maintain its round shape, each of these blades of grass has been pressed and pushed thousands of times by the breast, with its heart inside, surely with a shortness of breath and perhaps even palpitating."

I've dreamed of living where the trees keept death away was first shown at the exhibition Tree, at the Museum of Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Vietnam, in April 2005. The exhibition was curated by Veronika Radulovic.

Participants: Veronika Radulovic, Vu Kim Thu,Vu Dinh Tuan, Do Minh Tam, Brian Ring, Juliane Heise, Esther Neumann, Doan Van Bang, Pho Duc Tung, Luu Chi Hieu, Pham Binh Chuong, Tran Hau Yen The, Tran Quang Dung, Simone Fuchs, Le Tran Hau Anh, Le Lang Luong, Tran Hoang Son, Nguyen Bich Thuy, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Trieu Khac Tien, Bradford Edwards, Nguyet Giang Anh, Nguyen Nghia Phuong, Marie Preston, Nguyen The Son, Dong Ho, Le Quy Tong & Nguyen Minh Thanh.

See pictures from Tree exhibition at the Museum of Hanoi University of Fine Arts.