Materials. Transducers with amplifier. Plant pots. Native seeds. Soil. Mp3player. Coding. Supercollider
I AM THE FOREST is an installation on climate emergencies, which invites you to listen to the health of our world’s forests and simultaneously engage in a deforestation micro-activism practice.
If you place your ear against the tree, you can hear 20 years of deforestation data from different countries. Pick a nation, and then another, and listen to the nuances of the sound…
The data was extracted from Global Forest Watch, check them out!
Instructions
Walk around and listen, this is your environment.
See the colors and feel the textures surrounding you.
.breath.
Put your ear against the trunk of the tree. hear.
.breath again.
Plant some seeds with your bare hands.
Read the following text as in a meditative state.
Breathe me in, in the bliss of immensity
with your beating heart.
Breath me out, in silent eternity
for your quiet mind.
Breath me in, breathe me out
like the wind whispering
untold and secret chants.
And breathe me in, breathe me out
as for the fragility of existence
where do you stand?