A Few Model Palm TreesA Few Model Palm Trees is a remake, an interpretation, an appropriation, an adaption of Ed Ruschas famous book A Few Palm Trees from the 70s. Instead of using real palm trees, Roels makes use of downsized plastic trees that are used in architectural scale models, or that are used as childrens toys. Roels often works with (photographs of) palm trees. All palm trees look alike, and as a symbol the plants are highly recognizable. Historically theyre

” writes Shahidul Alam

in South West England

I had lived my life as a teenager

distinguish what it describes

Peter Galassi

and emotional landscapes of the mother-child universe

guided by intuition

build fires

the Second World War

the work leaves fingerprints of itself upon the artist

The author

the Guide contained 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971 and displayed a deceptively casual