I found this on No Land Grab. Thanks, Lumi.

Soapbox Gallery is pleased to present “Wishing dead trees back to life” a performance piece by Travis Clarke. Travis will spend seven consecutive nights in the gallery window space on Dean Street from sunset to sunrise wishing a dead tree back to life.
Soapbox Gallery, 636 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238, www.soapboxgallery.org

Friday, June 15 through Friday, June 22, Sunset to sunrise.

“Wishing dead trees back to life” is about attempting to do something that seems impossible. It is a very sad piece and is simply about the abstraction of trying. Dead trees seem like an appropriate metaphor for a lot of what is in the world today; it loosely connotes the environment, although this is not an environment piece exactly. The tree also represents a love or a person or even our collective social consciousness.