Collaborative Art Projects
Tracie Stewart / Teresa Klein— Braiding Ways of Knowing
Artist /Arborist Tracie Stewart and Author /Horticulturalist /Ceremonialist, Teresa Klein investigate Arboreal Relationship~ Thuja plicata derivative plicate-braided.
Indigenous peoples recognize kinship and reciprocity with Arborvitae~‘Tree of life’. World wide, people have used Western Red Cedar in a variety of applications. Contemporary Covid Culture features these oxygen providers in N95 mask production. Suzanne Simard relates Mother tree, living communities, root and mycelia: vast interconnected support systems.
The artists ask “What is your affiliation with Cedar?”
Invitation – as active participants in life, stand at the bend in the road. Take a deep breath of forest. Look with soft eyes to the four directions. Smile, say hello. What do you See? Smell? Hear? Feel? Remember?
(medical masks, soil, plastic mirrors, cedar seedlings and roots, sticks, monofilament)
Tracie Stewart traciestewart.weebly.com IG @tracie_stewart_artist
Teresa Klein IG @gardens_devine
Giving Homage: Red Western Cedar. A populace vanishing from its small range homelands in the PNW, on the brink of extinction through years of unchecked logging of Old Growth Forests, is now thought to be exacerbated by the trauma of Climate Change.
