Hazelnut Body: Re-Born is constructed from hazelnut trees that were logged as part of the landscaping process at Pedvale Art Park. By working directly with this material, Lim confronts a fundamental question: how does logging for the sake of art differ from logging framed as environmental destruction? Rather than concealing this condition, the work foregrounds it. The felled tree is reconfigured into a sculptural body. 

In the performance Re-Born (2022), this sculptural body becomes activated. Attached to the performer, fragments of hazelnut wood collide with surrounding elements, producing irregular and unpredictable sounds. The dead tree is thus rearticulated not as static form, but as vibration—as something that continues to act, resonate, and intervene. Through this transformation, Hazelnut Body: Re-Born shifts the question of responsibility from representation to action. It asks not only what it means to use natural material in art, but how that material continues to exist, respond, and make demands after it has been taken. In doing so, the work situates artistic practice within ongoing ecological and ethical entanglements, where making and destruction can no longer be clearly separated.