Representation is often an attempt to use a short-hand to explain the world, whether through science, diagram, or myth. In the summer of 2005, I visited Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, Isaac Newton’s home, and was given apples from his infamous tree (root of gravity and a slapstick myth).
The possibility of growing a bonsai from that tree is suggested in the resultant planned schematic drawings of an artform that has its own duration. The slapstick moment that signaled the Enlightenment era is commemorated in images of the potential control of the very natural process through which the mythical inspiration occurred.