Duration: 3 h 10 min
Site: Courtyard of the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
Materials: apple tree, protective whitewash for fruit trees, ladder, brushes, black workwear, safety harness

I send a white impulse through the nervous system of the Art Academy of Latvia. Its nerve is an old apple tree in the courtyard. At the threshold between winter dormancy and active growth, I work from its highest branches towards the trunk, coating it with protective whitewash used to shield fruit trees from intense sunlight and pests.
For over three hours, repeated brushstrokes shift my attention from measured time to balance, fear, fatigue, trust, the uneven bark beneath the brush and whitewash dripping from the branches. Traces accumulate on the tree, my body, tools and the ground. Duration becomes material.
When I leave, the performance continues. As the tree blossoms and grows leaves, it slowly alters the white layer on its bark.