Field drawings & observations
A leaf of forest.
A visual notebook of encounters with plants, paths, and the more-than-human world.
Selected drawings from the supplied A Leaf of Forest reference collection accompany the plant essays. Each image is presented with an English caption and a reference to its source page.
Thinking With the Forest
An archive drawing of dark trunks, colored forms and flowing blue lines accompanies Mountain People's Wisdom Repository. Its layered composition offers a visual entry into the source essay's reflections on local knowledge.
A Forest Above the Stream
Bird's-nest ferns gather on branches above a winding stream in this archive drawing. The facing field note describes six plants, other epiphytes and trailing mosses, observed during a pause on a walk.
A Fern on the Rock Face
An archive study of a bird's-nest fern growing on a rock face. The accompanying note compares its slender form with ferns described on branches and around village homes.
Lives on the Bark
Pale blue lichen and climbing stems share a tree's surface in this archive drawing. The field note moves from their colors and shapes to a meditation on coexistence and interdependence.
A Brief Visitor
An archive study of a damselfly and long leaves. In the accompanying account, the insect remained on a stump long enough for its outline to be drawn, then flew away.
Under the Pine Trees
Pine cones and fallen needles in an archive drawing accompanying an essay about a pine plantation and the relationship between forestry, livelihoods and ecological diversity.
A Small Life After Dark
An archive study of a small skink during a night walk in a park. The accompanying essay recalls childhood encounters with animals and the patient knowledge of a nature guide.
A Flowering Stem
A delicate flowering branch reproduced on the closing page of the source volume. The archive does not name the plant.
Entering the Mountain Forest
A forest canopy image from the reference collection, presented alongside the project’s exploration of mountain forests.
Learning in Place
An archive photograph accompanying Mountain People's Wisdom Repository, which asks how knowledge formed through everyday life with the land can enter an equal conversation with contemporary disciplines.
From the notebook
Ways of paying attention
Learning to Look
Drawing as a practice of attention
Forest RelationsA Forest Above the Stream
Bird's-nest ferns, branches, and the people along the path
Forest RelationsLives on the Bark
A shared surface and a meditation on coexistence
LandscapesThrough the Pine Wood
A walk through a changing forest landscape
People & PlaceKnowledge in Place
Listening to the people who live with the land
Art & Everyday LifeListening to Ordinary Places
Village corners, everyday objects, and the scale of human life