Prayer Tree

The Prayer Tree is an Asian tradition consisting of a tree with metal branches upon which people can put written prayers. It also refers to a small temple in downtown Tokyo, a centenarian tree that has been saved from destruction and where people regularly come to pray or make offerings. The idea behind it is the one of quietness in the midst of noise. It's the kind of little spaces that offer you a place to rest, to think, to meditate while surrounded by the ever so growing agitation of our cities. Yet the idea is not the one of a 'struggle' between noise and silence. It is not quietness versus noise, but quietness and noise co-existing.