Cornelia Konrads, Still Life with Tree, 2008

Saturday submersion à la Cornelia Konrads. The German artist is best known for her site-specific landscape installations, which spark imagination while toying with perception. This work, Still Life with Tree, was designed to sit within a landscape marked by volcanic activity at Chastreix, Massif du Sancy in France. There, a house appears to be sinking—or emerging, you decide—from a grassy stretch, having accrued a tree somewhere along the way. As with many of Conrad’s works, it invites us to reexamine our preconceptions of the relationship between the natural and the man-made in a typically whimsical way.