In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcome Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest.
Marlene will discuss some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth boreal forest where she lives on the island of Newfoundland – in particular, a series of 154 photographs, spanning 19 years, of native trees in the boreal forest ecosystem.
“My greatest aspirations are presently constituted by the 6 acres of old-growth boreal forest that I inhabit and I’m slowly tuning my body and my reflexes to its details. I’m coming to know this habitat by engaging with it in various ways: corporally, emotionally, intellectually, instinctively, linguistically, and in astonishment.
I’m interested in the particularity of each tree and the circumstances that bring me to discern certain trees amongst the thousands in this forest. Even when I’m being my most attentive, there are still many trees I’ve not yet noticed enough to remember as individuals.
Between 2007-2015, I continued the series of photographs with about nine trees that came to my attention each year. But what I should say is my attention came to them. Then, without initially having planned to do so, in 2018 it occurred to me to continue the series by re-photographing my hand on the same trees after an 11-year interval.
This event will also be broadcast within the Urban Tree Festival hub at the New Cross Gallery in south London.
Image details: Pair of excerpts from the series Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026, 11 years between photographs of my hand on the same tree. Credit: Marlene Creates
The Urban Tree Festival is an annual community celebration of trees, including their benefits, beauty, majesty, and magic, in cities, towns and all urban environments. Events, celebrations, walks, talks and storytelling are held across London and the UK, bringing all our communities together to educate, inspire and share their enjoyment of trees.
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