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A bunch of individuals in mumbai had organized a funeral for a tree & called it MY MOTHERS FUNERAL, mother nature that is.

A global warming awareness program where they communicated to over 50,000 people through different art forms, print & video on what you & I can do to save our mother from dying.

It was held at the gateway of india. we chose this spot because cause there was news that they were cutting down a couple hundred trees around that area (around may 2007).

so this seemed like a nice place to create a scene or a brilliant environment for a performance art. cause indians love to stare at any small thing, here we had a dead tree & a couple of women(rudalis: moaners) in white yelling & taking the blame of  killing their own mother by wasting energy, wasting water, killing trees etc. along with this they were given t-shirts & posters(recycled paper) which told people what to do & how to save our disintegrating planet

on June 17th, 2007, sunday evening 5pm a couple of thousand people gathered at the scene some thought it was good some got angry cops stopped us from hanging there till we showed them the permissions & then they had a problem with the money we gave them eventually they joined us in the march to kala ghoda  where the dead body was left as an instillation for 7 days for passing people to pay their respects to mother nature.

It was a funeral procession of a tree which started from

Gate way to Kala Ghoda amphitheater at 5pm.

The event was organised to raise awareness on global warming

The mother’s body

women mourning at the mother’s body & taking the blame for killing their mother by using bulbs, wasting water, wasting power & any other reason for global warming.

The funeral procession walking through the city

son’s of the soil carrying their mother’s body

This was the free poster that was given out to the people

who attended the funeral along with the tshirt & CFL bulbs.