Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees


The title of this artistic research project (2020-2021) alludes to the celebrated photography book Meetings with Remarkable Trees (1996) by Thomas Pakenham and is in some sense forming a counterpoint to it, by questioning what is remarkable and what is unremarkable, while focusing on individual trees.
Although we are often accused of “not seeing the forest for the trees”, this project wants to look at the opposite danger, not seeing the trees for the forest.

Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees blog
Project archive on the Research Catalogue
Videos of trees on instagram

ARA (Arts Research Africa) publication 

Some examples:

Writing in a Pine here
July with a Pine here
June with the Spruce of Independence here
With the Maple Tree (Corona Diary) as a brief version, here
The Double of an Ash Tree 2021 (11 min) HD 16:9
With the Apple Tree 2021 (15 min 10 sec) HD 16:9
Day and Night with a Mountain Birch (brief) 2021 (29 min 58 sec) HD 16:9
With the Tarri Pine 2021 (10 min 57 sec) HD 16:9
Dearest Pine (with text) 2021 (14 min 45 sec) HD 16:9
Tala om det för tallen (Tell it to the Pine) 2021 (1 h 14 min 15 sec) HD 16:9
On the Edge I 2020 (9 min 27 sec) HD 16:9
Dear Spruce 1-7 2020 (2 h 16 min 4 sec) HD 16:9
Day with a Bog Birch (with text) 2020 (20 min) HD 16:9
The Daily Birch (September in Mustarinda) brief 2020 (4 min 10 sec) HD 16:9
The Reclining Birch mix 2020 (16 min 1 sec) HD 16:9
Rakas Kuusi – Dear Spruce 2020 (5 min 47 sec) HD 16:9
Kära Björk – Dear Birch 2020 (5 min 50 sec) HD 16:9
Dear Deceased (with text) 2020 (6 min 26 sec) HD 16:9