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Leafy Subjects Exemplify the Social Life of Trees of Shyama Golden’s Verdant...
“Intertwined” (2020), acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. All images © Shyama Golden, shared with permission On the banks of the Martha Brae River in Jamaica, artist Shyama Golden noticed greenery that...
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Ornate Picture Frames Sprout Twisted Roots in Organic Sculptures by Darryl Cox
“Winter.” All images © Darryl Cox, shared with permission In Darryl Cox’s organic sculptures, gnarled tree roots or branches merge with the ornate grooves, patterns, and gilding of picture frames. The...
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Dense Autumn Trees Blanket a Mountainous Bavarian Forest in Bernhard Lang’s...
All images © Bernhard Lang, shared with permission The motto for the Bavarian Forest National Park in southeastern Germany translates to “let nature be nature.” This sentiment grounds conservation...
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In ‘Uprooted’ by Doris Salcedo, a House Made from Hundreds of Trees Morphs...
“Uprooted” (2020-22), 804 dead trees and steel, 300 x 65 x 50 meters. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15, Kalba Ice Factory, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023. All images © Doris Salcedo, shared with...
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A Mysterious Presence in the Forest Grapples with Change in Guldies’s...
In his latest stop-motion animation, Alexander Unger, who works as Guldies (previously), presents an idiosyncratic tale set in a nighttime forest. “MITOSIS” follows the transformation of a pine cone...
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Through Trompe L’oeil Bronze, Prune Nourry Fuses Human Anatomy and Arboreal...
“Atys (3).” Photo by Annik Wetter. All images © Prune Nourry, shared with permission At the end of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s baroque opera Atys, the titular character is transformed into a tree. This...
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Graham Franciose’s Otherworldly Watercolors Revel in Misty Forests and the...
“For All Your Years.” All images © Graham Franciose, courtesy of Gallery Ergo, shared with permission In watercolor and gouache, a world of wonder unfolds in surreal paintings by Graham Franciose...
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Meticulous Patterns Bring Harmony to Salma Price-Nell’s Inky Drawings of Trees
“Tree of Duality.” All images © Salma Price-Nell, shared with permission Salma Price-Nell gravitates toward patterns, harnessing their aesthetic and metaphorical properties through ink drawings....
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A Forthcoming Book Turns a New Leaf On Remarkable Photographs of Trees From...
Photo by Marc Alcock. All images © the photographers and Hoxton Mini Press, shared with permission For centuries, a lone tree grew in a gully known as Sycamore Gap along Hadrian’s Wall in...
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Escape to Forests Around the World with the Ambient Sounds of tree.fm
Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Get away from the stimuli of modern life by tuning into tree.fm, a stream of ambient forest sounds from around the globe. Designed by the Berlin-based design studio New...
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Banksy’s New Tree Mural Dramatically ‘Greenwashes’ the Side of a London Building
All images © Banksy In Finsbury Park, London, a new Banksy mural appeared on the side of a wall behind a recently pollarded tree. Installed on St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday marked by the color green,...
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Playfool Casts Colorful ‘Forest Crayons’ from Japan’s Surplus Timber
Photos by Shot by Kusk. All images © Playfool, shared with permission Japan is covered in nearly 70 percent forest, a remarkable statistic at a time when demand for timber continues to rise and urban...
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Beneath ‘The Tree of Life,’ Skander Khif Shares Intimate Stories in...
All images © Skander Khif, shared with permission Skander Khif was born in Tunis and first learned about the art of photography during a school project. But his studies eventually took him down an...
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In ‘Old Growth,’ Mitch Epstein Travels the U.S. to Capture Monumental Ancient...
“Patriarch Grove, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California” (2021), from the series ‘Old Growth,’ archival pigment print, 45 x 36 inches. All images © Mitch Epstein, courtesy of the artist and...
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Trees Are the Seeds of Human Creativity in an Uncanny Series by Ethan Murrow
“The Surgeon” (2024), graphite on paper, 48 x 48 inches. All images courtesy of Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, shared with permission Like the root systems that crawl below the earth’s surface,...
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In ‘Fictional Nature,’ Fabian Knecht Encloses Live Trees and Craggy Stones in...
“Isolation (Felswand)” (2024), wood, canvas, paint, light, 15 x 7 x 5 meters. All photos © Studio Fabian Knecht, shared with permission Walk into one of Fabian Knecht’s installations, and you’ll likely...
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A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees
Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Spanning 3,500 years of art, science,...
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Lush Growths and Classical Architecture Converge in Eva Jospin’s Meticulous...
Rather than position herself as an observer of landscapes, Eva Jospin imagines humans and their environments as one. The Parisian artist carves intricate forests and stately architecture subsumed by...
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Paper Christmas Trees by Maho Motoyama Take Holiday Boxes to a New Level
From single sheets of green paper, Los Angeles-based designer Maho Motoyama devises a veritable forest of Christmas tree-shaped boxes. Ranging from a few basic folds to elaborate, multifaceted...
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Charles Gaines Maps the Meanings of Ancient Baobab Trees in Meticulous Charts
Since the 1970s, Charles Gaines (previously) has been charting the sprawling, unpredictable forms of trees onto numbered grids. He began with walnut trees in 1975, which he photographed while barren...
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