Read (to) the trees (2017- )

Turn (the) leaves | 2018 | Public participatory event

'Read (to) the trees' is an ongoing research project inviting contributions from human and nonhuman participants. It began with Return by 24/9/2017, when unwanted books, stored for many years in a barn at West Town Farm Devon, were read to trees in a nearby copse, prior to being pulped. A similar activity formed part of Fatal Exchanges at the Cotley Estate in 2017 and the project was later further developed in collaboration with Megan Calver as a series of public events, culminating in an 8-channel sound installation for 'Art on the East Devon Way' commissioned for the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton in Autumn 2018.

Photo: Simon Tutty, courtesy Thelma Hulbert Gallery