Tree skin

Tree skin is fascinating.

The older the tree the more stories it tells.

Cracks, interstices, moss, micro-colours...

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We explore tree skin through touch, smell and vision.

How does it feel to be a tree?

How does a tree feel you?

What if I open my face to the rain - and feel the drops like a tree?

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PRACTICE: Hug a tree (see in scores)

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Skin as fractals: when you touch, smell or watch the tree skin you can fractalize reality:

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you touch it as tough, coarse, lumpy - and the landscape under your fingers is a fractal of the Earth skin or your own geography (under magnifying glass your skin has the same cracks and upd and downs).

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you smell it as wood - but wood decomposes into moss, moist, lichen, bacteria, growing branch, running sap, tree is an accomodation of multiple lives.

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And smells too.

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When you see it - simple earthy grey, it fractalizes into shades of green, brown, reddish, light grey, etc etc....

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SKIN IS A FRACTAL.