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As part of the Ballymun Renewal Scheme, which had a planned public sector spend of hundreds of millions of euro, and total plans exceeding 2.5 billion euro, a combined percent for art programme was deployed through the Breaking Ground arts organisation established under the oversight of Dublin City Council's Ballymun Regeneration Limited. Breaking Ground sponsored a range of artworks, but also advertised by open call, in 2002, for a major project. Ultimately, two options were considered: a sculpture by American public artist Jeff Koons, whose works already commanded high prices but some of which were seen as "draws" or tourist attractions, or a participatory public artwork by conceptual artist Jochen Gerz.  Gerz, German-born, Paris-resident, and with dozens of public and participative art projects completed, had visited Ballymun in 2002, and had noticed the lack of trees, commenting "My first reaction was, this is a 'no-fly zone' for birds. It's very mineral, very planned, very geometrical. There is very little organic confidence, as if everybody needed to be planned, as if life could not happen in confidence."After further reading in Irish mythology, in which he noted the prominence of trees and woods, Gerz put tree planting at the centre of his project proposal.  He further explained that he saw "the trees as breaking up the public and civic space of Ballymun", which he feared would otherwise be streamlined and anodyne, and that "It's nice to interrupt a little bit the monotony of the computer drawings."  The project fitted within Gerz's "participatory art" area of work, including his perception that active involvement in art is important to democracy and the sense of community, and that the role of artist is not an isolated one: "The division of the world into artists and audiences endangers democracy" and this theme was reflected in the comments by some art critics reviewing amaptocare as discussed in the Reception section below.The Gerz proposal was selected, and proceeded as the largest, and one of the two highest-funded, Ballymun arts projects, with a budget described as exceeding 250,000 euro, and a duration from December 2003 to December 2017. While some arts-related construction projects have cost much more, amaptocare has even been described as Ireland's largest arts project. amaptocare was commissioned in late 2003 by Aisling Prior, the director of Breaking Ground, who also acted as producer, and was named amaptocare, derived from "a map to care".  The project manager, also working as producer, was Sheena Barrett.  The artist moved with his wife, Laurence Vanpoulle, to Sneem, County Kerry while overseeing amaptocare, and they settled there.
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