This installation is a work in which the artist tuned cardboard tubes and assembled them in the shape of a giant tree. On this tree the artist placed twelve life-sized robotic replicas of himself, and then programmed them to beat out religious hymns at humorously irregular intervals. The source of inspiration has been a re-imagining and a reconfiguring of his own body. Hawkinson says about the work, "Each of these figures taps with a different part of its body on the branches of the tree. The rhythmic patterns are derived from popular melodies. The title refers to the historical Jewish holiday on which the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ received the Holy Spirit and were able to speak in different languages."
        A visitor of the exhibition explains that the first thing you notice is the sound made by the body parts striking their respective drums. Nose, toe, finger, penis, ear, tap out a delightful percussive music; The figures communicate, collaborate, speak in 'tongues.' A clever metaphor is established of the human community, our tree of life.

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