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Joan Wulf views trees as record keepers, storing memory and time into their thick bark, their layered rings. They map out years of feast and famine, reflecting the state of the environment around them. They pass information through the mycelial mats of the forest floor, communicating and sharing resources with the trees around them. Out of these relationships and physical points of connection grows a community—the forest.

Wulf focuses on relationships between trees—and by extension between trees and people—in her series Echoes. The body of work charts a sort of dance between tree and human, …