Tree Neographies (2025)

‘Tree Neographies’ (2025) is an installation drawing on the quiet gestures of the natural world, echoing a time when humanity was more closely attuned to the sentience of other life forms. As our separation from nature deepened, our ability to receive and interpret their subtle communications gradually receded from collective awareness.

Through neography, a channel for reconnection is introduced. By reimagining and transforming found bark fragments from a mature Cyprus pine tree, a visual lexicon begins to emerge — an alphabet, a logography — extending an invitation from the trees to re-perceive, re-attune, and re-listen.

The suspended sculpture features a constructed tree script created using AI style-transfer models, blending bark fragments (“characters”) from the pine tree with elements of Chinese seal script, offering a poetic reading that opens the possibility of listening across worlds.

The translucent scroll reimagines the organic bark fragments not as merely the byproduct of incidental shedding, but an output of innate linguistic and semiotic mechanisms: a work of “calligraphy” that is shaped by the tree’s Unwelt and born from the very essence of an arboreal existence.