TreeofLife

Tree of Life explores the relationship between the human body, wood and the earth. Through staged portraits among trees, moss, stone and moving water, the work brings skin and natural textures into close contact. The landscape is not treated as a backdrop. It becomes an active presence against which the body is held, sheltered and exposed.

Touch provides the project’s central language. A hand presses into moss; hair moves with the wind; a figure rests beside water or stands at the edge of a tree. These gestures draw attention to the physical ways people experience their connection to the natural world. The body appears both distinct from its surroundings and continuous with them.

Colour and black-and-white images alternate throughout the sequence. Colour makes earth, skin and moss immediate, while monochrome reduces the landscape to form, movement and tonal weight. Across these shifts, the figure moves between portrait and element: an individual presence, but also a body participating in a wider material cycle.

The work does not present nature as a place of uncomplicated harmony. Trees and stone may offer shelter, yet they also reveal the body’s scale and vulnerability. Water carries movement through otherwise still scenes. Tree of Life considers how contact with the landscape can hold both belonging and exposure, and how the body shares in processes of growth, change, decay and renewal.