Reusch, Dr. Siegfried Image rescue plaques - History of an unintended intervention On 12. January 2015 at exactly 12:16:09 CET, an email from WeTransfer interrupts my concentrated work. "christian-hasucha@t-online.de has sent you files", as the server service informs me in the upper part of the characteristically designed email. Half a year ago I got in touch with Christian Hasucha. In the course of a research project, I had become aware of his work entitled später sein wird (later will be). On a grassy traffic island, he had installed a stencil in the shape of a deciduous tree, about eight metres wide and six metres high, made of a ten-centimetre-thick rectangular steel profile. Framed or squeezed in, depending on how you look at it, an apple tree about three and a half metres high and about five years old had been planted in the middle of the steel outline. My first assumption is that the rigid steel silhouette is supposed to illustrate the expected growth of the tree. The slender "young tree", striving towards the light and the sky, is confronted by its expected future. The confrontation of a living young tree growing with a rigid steel frame anticipating the final state of potential growth is a wonderful illustration of what the philosopher Edmund Husserl wanted to express with the term "protention". With this term, the founder of phenomenology refers to a functioning of human consciousness. For example, in order to be able to recognise a melody, the various individual events such as the temporally isolated sounding of individual notes must be brought into a context by our consciousness... Read more (PDF) Cf. Project documentation Nr. 65 Image Rescue Plaques