The Luminous Treepalaces (and the Energy Trees) were initially created to be part of a sculptural installation that was going to be called "Luminous Treepalace Gardens of Tranquility." The installation never happened – although I have not given up on it – but each individual sculpture was made to stand perfectly well on its own and have its own song to sing too.   

The installation was meant to represent a place of 

tranquillity, a haven to recharge in, a garden that fills 

anyone who visits it with the most positive energy 

possible and lights the path back to their own inner light and inner stillness, or peace. However, its meaning and reach intuitively grew and evolved as I worked on its 

individual parts, taking off from the personal to the global, as a symbolic representation of Peace and the search for 

inner balance/peace. In the process, its title kept on 

changing.

I am more convinced by the day that World Peace begins with each individual's cultivation of personal stillness/peace/balance with and within themselves. Before being a global one, the journey is always a personal one. 

As such, each individual Treepalace is simultaneously a 

representation of the self and a representation of a safe haven, a place of nourishment, where nothing is lacking, nothing is needed and everything is in harmonious 

balance.