Arboreal

Arboreal is an immersive installation about the relationship between nature, image and interior space. The work begins at the threshold, where branches, bark and moss extend the landscape into the gallery. Beyond them, suspended sheets of tracing paper form layers that shift in relation to one another as the viewer moves.

Drawing on Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, the work explores what dimness and partial visibility make possible. Branches and sky move across the full surface of each translucent sheet. The paper diffuses the image, so foliage and shadow pass from one layer to the next.

The forest matter at the entrance and the moving shadows inside bring different experiences of the same landscape together. One is tactile and close, while the other is fleeting and depends on where the viewer stands.