“Earth | Tree | Sky”
takes viewers on a meditative journey,
enveloped in the intimate complexity of roots and grasses, branches and leaves.

The piece expresses, with reverence and a visual poetry,
that a tree belongs to the earth, the land, and the sky,
bridging these domains with grandeur and grace.

Created by Lucy Boyd-Wilson.
Music by Barry Lockwood.

“Souls Must”
Inspired by the construction of a roundabout in her neighborhood during lockdown, Crystal Daigle’s short film uses stop motion animation to explore our intrinsic need with our environment.
Her surprising lead characters plead for accessibility to a fundamental natural resource.

Artist Crystal Daigle
finds California Live Oak’s
convex leaves fascinating.
They harvest fog and host many species of butterflies/moths.
Her installation and short film provide a contemplation of these symbiotic relationships
through color, movement and poetry.

The Oakestra is an instrument designed to capture in sound the unique environment created under an oak tree canopy: a shifting tapestry of dappled light filtering through swaying branches, a cool, moist refuge where leaf litter and deep roots enrich the soil.
Light and temperature control harmonics, a wind sensor creates a haunting siren, and a sonar range finder modulates percussive white noise as branches oscillate in the wind. This performance is accompanied by guitars and percussion instruments, including some crafted from acorns and oak branches.
There will also be a special guest appearance by Homie the Houseplant, rigged with an apparatus (the Plant Player) that lets us hear the action potentials (s)he produces in response to human touch. The audience will be invited to join us in exploring these instruments.

“Roots Between&Beyond” invites us into a different rhythm, to explore and connect. What does it feel like?
Can we belong in this place?
In the flow of our lands…

A physical installation / sculpture by Mark Title which showcases nature’s beauty through the lens of high technology.
This piece imagines a wintery forest landscape – in glowing neon!

A rhapsody on a symmetrical ecosystem

Barry Lockwood

Refugia is a painterly data visualization done in collaboration with scientists working to identify areas (known as climate refugia) plants and animals can retreat to as California heats up.
The area outside the Venn diagram depicts stressors such as development,
drought, rising temperatures, and wildfire.
Inside the circles, I have depicted habitats offering ever-increasing resources for resilience culminating in the glowing “super-refugia” depicting a riparian oak woodland in the very center.

Rose Canyon Trees

32 x 48 acrylic paintings on canvas