PLATE I · ETYMOLOGIA
The word stands upright
나무 names the tree not as resource, but as presence: a vertical patience held between weather and soil. In the quiet syllables lives a sheltering form, a thing that grows by listening.
Here the atlas opens at night. Brass light touches the margin; spores drift through the study air; each branch is recorded with the care reserved for constellations.
Quercus memoria · Pinus somnium · Acer aurum