Documentation from the studio of the artist / Sint-Lukas galerie, Brussels 2007/ One twenty gallery, Ghent 2007/ Belgium, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Rootfilling is produced with support from IASPIS.
• Size Matters, Text by Jurriaan Benschop 

Material: wood, metal, adhesive tape, plastic foil, black feathers, 5 ventilators, transparent tape, PVC pipes, steel wire, chicken wire.

Rootfilling looks like a tree and is 10-meter long. The tree has fallen and therefore the roots are visible. There is a figure, larger then normal size and strongly built inside the root system. The figure belongs to the tree and is covered with plastic and black tape in the same way as the roots.

The trunk is covered with black plastic and transparent tape. Everything that is usually visible (the ground that we stand on, the trunk, the branches) has this glittery surface.

Rootfilling has two sides, above the ground (trunk, branches, glittery surface) and below the ground (roots, soil, figure, feathers). Since the tree has fallen the root system, which normally cannot be seen, is displayed.
The height of the root part is 280 cm and 400 cm wide.

The root systems consist of: the soil which feathers are attached to. The feathers are moving, due to table fans integrated in the roots. The ventilators create a buzzing sound. The wind makes the feathers move and this create “activity”. The activity is there to emphasize that it is in the root part that the change has taken place. The figure is flexible it got long arms, legs and is surrounded by roots and soil. The figure sucks its own toe. The figure did not crawl into the roots after the tree fell; it was there from the beginning.