World Art Utopia

Upfest 2015: patient with a tree

Black-and-white stencil by Dr Love in Bristol of a barefoot patient in a hospital gown breathing through a mask connected to a potted tree on a cart, with a green crown on the tree.
Artwork FileBristol · United Kingdom

Upfest 2015: patient with a tree

Seen26 Jul 2015

Dr Love (Bacha Khoperia) · Bristol

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Photographer and camera date of this archive version not recorded. Full framing retained; resized. The share image uses the full photograph over a blurred background.

Dr Love’s Bristol Upfest work shows a patient pushing a tree on a cart. A later Life of Breath exhibition identifies the artist as Bacha Khoperia and places the original work in Bedminster. Source Reported

Seen Jul 2015. Source Dates refer to the linked evidence, not a new on-site inspection.

💡 4 things to know

  1. A descriptive title“Patient with a tree” describes the scene; the photographer does not provide a formal artwork title. Source Reported
  2. Bristol originsLife of Breath identifies the work as street art from Bristol Upfest 2015. Source Reported
  3. An environmental connectionThe exhibition reads the work as a prompt for dialogue about people and their environment. Source Reported
  4. Later circulationA World Environment Day essay reproduced Daz Smith’s photo in 2017; this does not prove the wall survived until then. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

Bedminster; exact wall not verified, Bristol, United Kingdom Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 201525 Jul

    Daz Smith photographs the work at Upfest

  2. 201526 Jul

    Pete Woodhead photographs the work at Upfest

  3. 2017

    Photo reproduced in World Environment Day essay; not a new wall sighting

  4. 201910 Dec

    Work documented in virtual exhibition; not evidence of survival on the wall

Green stamps are dated photographs; amber stamps are records or reports. Publication and upload dates are not camera dates. A dated sighting does not guarantee the work remains in place today.

✅ The facts

Artist
Bacha Khoperia, also known as Dr Love Source Checked
Festival
Bristol Upfest 2015 Source Checked
Original area
Bedminster, Bristol Source Checked
Daz Smith photo taken
25 July 2015 Source Checked
Linked evidence photo author
Daz Smith Source Checked
Exhibition record
Life of Breath virtual exhibition, 10 December 2019 Source Checked

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All sources & image credits

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Photographer and camera date of this archive version not recorded. Full framing retained; resized. The share image uses the full photograph over a blurred background.

Last checked: 24 October 2026 · How we verify art