River's Odyssey (2023)

The dialogue River and Beeja exchange, via a transistor radio at first, "trees communicate at 220 Hz frequency", offers an insight into the connections between child and tree, through ancestral care, the breath they exchange and the site-specific memories they co-create. It touches on themes of colonialism, cultivation and creolization, leaning on reciprocation, inter-generational and inter-species knowledge that is gained through communication. The chrysalis-like hollow in the tree becomes an Immersive environment for deep listening, quantum storytelling, exploration, magical thinking and metamorphosis. Time spent in there enables the flowering of a different kind of interconnectedness, where a being who enters it, physically or spiritually, is never quite the same when they leave, forever embedded with a seed of intent and purpose.