An Art-Science Partnership Offering New Views of Dynamic Landscapes

Tree Water debuted in the WILDLAND exhibition in early 2025 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, Calif. It used four video projectors with layered soundscapes to spatially represent a grove of trees and a creek bed. In the darkened space, footage of pigments flowing in water artistically animated the process of rainwater entering soil, roots, branches, and eventually, air. Credit: Ethan Turpin