#arborescence

It's difficult to imagine the Earth without its forests, but it wasn't until the Devonian just 400 million years ago that the first awkward tree sprouted like fuzz from Earth's pubescent chin. What little we know of critical periods of ancient arborescence, or tree development, is mostly based on stumps and roots preserved in rock, with a scattering of leaves and branches squished flat between layers of mud and stone.

Être, ici/là-bas, 2024 (détail)

Pierres de verre, structure en cuivre, microphone, leds vertes, papier incrustation bleu.

Jean Dubuffet, Arborescenes I, 1971,

Screenprinted vacuum-formed relief, 

Initialed and dated '72' in pencil, numbered 13/75,

Overall: 12 1/8 x 9 ½ in. (308 x 241 mm.)

Arborescence 

Arborescence II, 2023

Cuivre, aquarelle

[Arborescence II, 2023

it reminded me of fire punch. There’s a sense of melancholy throughout that just kinda hit the same place fire punch did, especially the ending. idk I can’t explain it.

Arborescence is a book about people turning into trees. It’s a book about love and humanity and the end of the world. It’s a book about the slow grief that creeps through us, the urge for stillness, for oneness. It’s about each other.

in the end, it doesn’t make much sense. We don’t know why it happens. But life continues, I guess. And I love you.