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In October 2019 after reading the Pulitzer prize winning book ‘The OverStory’ by Richard Powers I started my plans for the socio-eco art practice ‘The Memory Palace of Tree Stories’. It began in January 2020 at a time when the pandemic was just about to reveal itself as the most urgent global emergency of our lifetime. The pandemic is very much part of our ecological crisis and how we ‘utilize’ the natural world.  People worldwide have reappraised their relationship and dependance on the natural world. Many have turned to nature to claim a space of sanctity and sanity and some people have shared their stories with us in the Memory Palace of Tree Stories.

Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio-ecological art practice which invites your participation to tell a story or give some kind of information about trees. It is a social enquiry of how to live better with the planet and with people and other living beings. You are cordially invited to share your story of a tree or trees in the form of a one minute video. I would love to hear from you.

The most recent Stories are in the format of a one minute videos.

#1 Teardrops After a Storm 

#2 Pomegranate Tree

#3 Trees are like Humans

#4 Old Ash – A Real Survivor

#5 Tree Rings of Life

#6 A Very Weird Elf

#7 Old Crabapple of Wenhua Dian

#8 Standing Fast

#9 Feeling Good – Tree Song

#10 Forest Breath – Tree Story

#11 Protective Peach – Tree Story

#12 Bee Tree Sycamore

#13 Winter Apples

#14 Ancient Yew Trees

#15 Once I Counted Birds

#16 Family Oak

#17 When the Trees Say Everything

#18 Strawberry Tree

#19 Mother Oak and Baby Oak

#20 My Leylandii

#21 Chestnut Repotted

#22 Native Birch

#23 Ethan’s Tree

#24 Holding Trunk of Time

#25 Our Mother’s Legacy

#26 It Blossomed

#27 Always Trying To Hold Each Other Up

#28 Wollemi Pine

#29 Barrow Willow

#30 For What We Might Become

#31 Sheltering Beech

#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle

#33 Monterey Cypress

#34 Struggle On, Struggle On

#35 Like A Chestnut

#36 Head and Shoulders Above the Rest

#37 An Sean Dair

#38 Trees for the Forest 

#39 1710 

#40 I Feel at Peace 

#41 Chongqing Cedar

#42 Fire Vine Bauhinia

#43 Bamboo- Flutter

#44 Oak of St Anne’s

#45 Angie’s Umbrella Tree 

#46 Berna’s Umbrella Tree

#47 Hawthorn, it gives and it gives 

#48 Apple Tree Swing 

#49 Forest Bathing part 1 

#50 Forest Bathing part 2 

#51 Mulberry – when Swiss watches were almost made in Waterford

#52 Prunus Kanzan -double flowered Cherry Blossom

#53 Oak – We absolutely Love it

#54 Pre-Famine Timber

#55 Slogged Apples 

#56 Ash – Determined to Stay Put 

#57 The Best Apple Tart in Headford

#58 Apple Tree of Clonmel

#59 Horizontal Arbutus Unedo

#60 Euonymus Zones

#61 How Big They Can Get 

#62 Autumn Maple

#63 The Magic of Moss

#64 Gallipoli and the Sycamore

#65 Liquid Amber

#66 Hardymount Chestnut

#67 Silver Birch – a gentle and lovely ending 

#68 Keeping Blackbird Company 

#69 Tulip Tree

#70 Itea Ilicifolia

#71  Silver Birch Moonlight 

#72  The Shape of It 

#73 The Missing Gorilla

#74 Tree House

#75 Bat Burglars 

#76 The Perfect Conker

#77 Ginkgo Biloba and Sweet Gum

#78 Ash  – The Horse Whisperer

#79 Healers 

#80 Fairy Ash 

#81 Under the Oak

#82 Date Palm

#83 Willow  – Branching Out 

#84 Tree Bee Hive 

#85 Flickering Flame Bark Birch

#86 Devine Tree of Sanxingdui

#87 Pagoda Tree & St-John Perse 

#88 Encounter

#89 Maples of a Hundred Years 

#90 French Chestnut