the works of trees -- a portfolio of arboreal creative outputs
six pieces of arboreal craft, each carrying its own Memphis signature.
A series of slow ink drawings tracing the irregular branching habits of Korean red pines in the Gangwon highlands -- the way limbs reach asymmetrically toward thinning sun.
An audio installation built from the resonant tones of dried oak, walnut, and cedar planks struck by felt mallets -- a meditation on how species of tree carry distinct voices into the workshop.
A photographic essay treating a small grove of beeches as if it were domestic interior -- the canopy a ceiling, the trunks load-bearing columns, the leaf-litter a quiet rug.
A bound catalog of 96 wood-grain rubbings, each annotated with species, age, and the day's weather -- attempting a taxonomy of how trees write themselves down.
A short film documenting a single old persimmon tree in a temple courtyard across one year -- the long, slow color drift from green to crimson, fruit by fruit.
A pocket-sized handbook listing twelve forest spots organized not by trail or species but by the particular kind of quiet they each produce on a still afternoon.
the visual signatures used throughout the catalog -- a textile-sample taxonomy.
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