Trees take center stage in my life. I feel a deep reverence for their unique nature as I create my images. For me, trees represent the connection between energy (air, light) and the material world (soil, earth). Each time I am working on the tree crowns, I take numerous single frames to be assembled later, paying great attention to every detail, thus deepening the encounter. Through this intimate “face-to-face” with the trees, I want to capture the primordial energy of these ancient living beings. I opted to position the treetops upside down in the final work – just as they are projected onto our retina initially. Reversed in that way, the images remind me of roots, medicinal illustrations of a human lung, a family tree or a symbolic “tree of life”, as they appear in ancient traditional weavings. My series On the Nature of Things is based on a visualization of the alchemical formula “Above is one with below, inside is one with outside, spirit is one with body”.
