Language of Trees

Holten, Katie
Language of Trees

Language of Trees

Holten, Katie

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The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Suzanne Simard, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, Plato and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet - made of the trees themselves - and uses it to masterfully translate and illustrate these pieces from some of the world's most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists.

Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.

The Language of Trees is an astonishing fusion of storytelling, knowledge and art that reveals how these living, feeling, communicating beings make our world, change our minds and rewild our lives.

'A visual reminder that, like strong oaks from little acorns, we still can create the world in which we wish to live.' Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Author:   Holten, Katie
Publisher:   Elliott & Thompson Limited
ISBN:  

9781783967483


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 October 2023
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Suzanne Simard, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, Plato and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet - made of the trees themselves - and uses it to masterfully translate and illustrate these pieces from some of the world's most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists.

Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.

The Language of Trees is an astonishing fusion of storytelling, knowledge and art that reveals how these living, feeling, communicating beings make our world, change our minds and rewild our lives.

'A visual reminder that, like strong oaks from little acorns, we still can create the world in which we wish to live.' Kerri ni Dochartaigh

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Author:   Holten, Katie
Publisher:   Elliott & Thompson Limited
ISBN:  

9781783967483


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 October 2023
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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