Artist Creates Flying Tree Sculptures to Personify Immigration

Some of the most beautiful artwork is made when the artist comes in touch with his or her personal story. When the story is from the young age, the strength with which it imprints on the artist soul is spectacular.

This is the message behind these unrooted trees made by Jorge Mayet, a Cuban artist and a Havana native now living in Mallorca. Jorge was born in 1962, and he lives in exile from his home country, but the deep memory stays and is translated into the landscape-like sculptures of trees with roots that are weeded out.

The ungrounded trees symbolize the ever wondering feeling of the person who has left the home country behind and can never come back. The allegory is in both parts of the tree – the trunk is seen over the ground and the roots are seen below the ground.