Assembling the Congregation

The Language of Trees, Bridge Project, Denver CO, 2022

Assembling the Congregation was an installation and performance for a show titled The Language of Trees composed of one hundred charcoal drawings on the backside of used 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper using photo references of trees from around the world. Accompanying this installation was the sound of bio-acoustic seismic microphone recordings from inside and near trees. There is a scared interconnection to my relationship of any eco-system. Trees are one of many living communicating entities essential to the sustainability of our biosphere. For myself drawing is a type of deconstruction of an object in order to understand how it functions and why it appears the way it does. Through observation and repetitive rendering of these trees I am able to deconstruct each one and re-assemble them as a global forest, a congregation where their language is spoken.