Under the Canopy
Bristlecone pine by Eric Utne (from Dark Mountain: Issue 9)
‘Our ancestors came from the canopy, and – given our species’ reliance on trees to make our world habitable – in many ways we never left it. Or it never left us.’
This ongoing section is an invitation for writers and artists to explore the effects that trees have on us, from tree protests in England and India, to forest fires in Australia and California, to ancient chestnut in Sicily to the first palm to be felled on an Indonesian island. Welcome to the woods.
Ring Of Truth
lucy.neal
23rd May, 2024
What would happen if a tree could take the government to court? Through the dramatic performance of a court proceeding, writer and artist Lucy Neal imagines how we might recognise the rights of the more-than-human in a time of ecological breakdown.
Heartwood
Shaun Pett
17th January, 2024
For our third delve into the archive we go to forests of Ontario with Joanna Pocock who introduces Shaun Pett's devastating study of their dying ash trees, from our 'requiem' 'Issue 19' With main tree artwork by Laura McPhee from 'Issue 20 - ABYSS'.
The Fungus Among Us
Annekawilliams24
22nd February, 2023
This week scientist and writer Anneka Williams delves into the underground world of the largest organism, a pathogenic fungus stretching for miles in the soil of an Oregon forest.
Spaces Between Branches
Nastassja Noell
20th July, 2022
For our Under the Canopy series: Lichenologist Nastassja Noell takes her paint box into the forest and perceives our relationship with trees and life from a radically different perspective
Fine Particles of Brilliant Forests, Burning
Becca Rose Hall and Rosalie Chapple
14th September, 2020
As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.