In Tomasz Domański's latest performance a tree belonging to cultural symbols of life and knowledge will appear again, connecting the world of man and nature. The title Cutting describes the action performed and the punishment and spectacle that accompanies its infliction. Cutting will be another return to the motif of man-tree, ever present in Tomasz Domański's works. It began with a find from 2007— a piece of tree, empty on the inside, covered with bark, bringing to mind an organic shell abandoned by a powerful animal. When the artist put it on, it became his shelter, his solitude, but also his armor and a vehicle for transformation: "Physically and mentally I almost became a tree. I wandered with the hollowed out trunk on my back imagining various projections; I experienced the weight of the cross, the loneliness of Don Quixote, and even participated in personal tree therapy as I walked the streets and fields embraced by the tree. My dead trunk provided me with a super natural feeling of belonging to the ecosystem [...]." - he wrote about the experience. It resulted in the video work “I Am More Tree Than a Person”, two parts of which were made in 2008. These are recordings showing Domański wandering like a hermit crab through natural and urbanized landscapes. In 2010, both video parts were included in the installation "The Return of the Man Called a Tree", where they were seen by the audience next to swaying trunks moving like pendulums. In this installation, touch, movement, and the poignant sound of wooden blocks being pushed by hands build an unsettling experience for the participants. These works are far from didactic, infused with the environmental concerns of an unwitting participant in the Anthropocene.