Recent Forest Stories
Scotch pine # 34B
Meet the Scotch pine #34B (ID and exact location were changed to protect the tree’s anonymity). The pine is strapped with various sensors, through which it offers streams of data about its interaction with the local forest environment and the atmosphere. This is a story of how this pine/sensing device caught a disease known as… Continue reading Scotch pine # 34B
Spectacled bear // Os // Oso de Anteojos
A spectacle bear sitting by the sun light, as weaved by Maria Victoria Chicunque. In Kamëntŝa culture, the bear usually stands for generous spirit and ingenuity; being these animals recurrent protagonists of stories and myths and represented in multiple ways, such as in this labor (weaved pictogram). MV June 2021 The Os (bear in Kämentsa)… Continue reading Spectacled bear // Os // Oso de Anteojos
Carbon Tree
I’m a pine, but humans call me the Carbon Tree. They are obsessed with how I breathe and trade carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, so they dressed me with some sensors to translate my life into numbers. Sometimes I feel like I’m just a living sum of data…so many of them come to look at… Continue reading Carbon Tree