How to Create a Tree

Drawing made by following the cursor of a YouTube tutorial on how to create a tree in a 3D graphics program. The movement of the human hand is here the creating, yet dominating force, exercising its power to conjure up a tree in only 20 minutes. Through the materialization of a virtual process, the purely physical aspect of constructing virtual reality, and, especially, virtual nature, is emphasized. What remains when the mimetic quality of representation of nature is removed? Could the act of peeking through the surface of representation reveal anything about our relationship with nature?