Living in the Ground #1
Ink on Mylar
36 x 55 inches
2021

In this series I am imagining what it might feel like to be a tree growing roots into the ground.

I have had a fascination for roots since I was a kid. I wonder about the inner experience of trees. Is the most important part underground? Much of their living body is invisible to us until they get blown over. When a tangle of roots is visible, it feels like I’m looking at internal organs, or a private language. Roots are shaping themselves dynamically and tell a specific story. They might describe their movement to create a base, and they may outline their search for water and nutrients. Roots reach widely to create a broad support for their upright trunk. What must it feel like to grow limbs into the dirt, wind around rocks, seek water and minerals, grow perceptively in survival and in trust that this wending and growing and weaving into soil will sustain and stabilize this precarious vertical explosion of life in the air? We can tune into this process somatically. The Roots International Art Project feels like a chance to share branches of our tree stories with others across time and space.

Living in the Ground #3
Ink on Mylar
36 x 55 inches
2021

Living in the Ground #4
Ink on Mylar
36 x 55 inches
2021