Wood in a Space

Wood applied to a room — through plants, timber, paper and the colour green. In placement practice wood enters a space as living plants, as timber furniture and fittings, as paper and fabric, and as the green part of the colour range. It is the element of growth and of what is still becoming.

Through material, color, shape and direction rather than through objects alone. Wood applied to a room — through plants, timber, paper and the colour green. Wood is the only element that has to be maintained rather than merely placed — a plant that dies removes the remedy, which the tradition treats as worse than never having placed one.

The classical method reads wood through the generating and overcoming cycles: fire draws from it, water feeds it, metal acts on it. The practical application is to add wood where growth is wanted and to withdraw it where a space is already over-active. It is grouped under Wood (木) in the five-element system.