Making Room The forest’s return began with making room. Rainforest once covered this land. Logging and clearing followed. The land became grazing pasture, then lantana spread across the [...]
A forest is not made by trees alone This book brings into view what the framed Hidden Relationships works partly conceal. Blind embossings of birds, insects and plant structures draw attention to [...]
Forest Time Some things only reveal themselves when movement stops. This book grew from time spent walking, looking and listening in the forest. It follows the experience of slowing down, [...]
What stories grow at her feet? I kept returning to one particular blue quandong. Standing beneath her canopy, I was entranced by the loud hum of bees. I paused to take in her size. Her trunk. The [...]
canopy From the forest floor, I look up. Here, in this book, the view is reversed. Drone photographs reveal the canopy from above, where tree crowns meet and overlap. This wider view shows the [...]
Jewels of the Forest Vivid green staghorns adorn the red cedar’s branches like jewels. Their beauty took me by surprise. The drone photographs revealed them from above, looking down into the [...]
Eucalyptus A leaf recalls a tree. I have always loved eucalyptus, especially its smell. Holding its leaves brings that familiar scent close, connecting the tree with touch and memory. A wet [...]
Podocarpus elatus Plum pine Deep time grows here. Plum pine belongs to the podocarps, a conifer lineage with a long fossil history. Its presence in the forest connects that history with the life [...]
Freycinetia excelsa Narrow-leaved climbing pandan Leaves seem to dance. Rooted in the forest floor, this plant climbs through the surrounding vegetation. I was drawn to its long, thin leaves, [...]
