A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees — Colossal

Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission

Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, “Library” (2007), archival pigment print, 48 x 60 inches. Image courtesy of Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, and Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida

Charles K. Wilkinson, “Funeral Ritual in a Garden” (1921), tempera on paper, 28 × 48 inches. Image courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund, 1930

Shota Suzuki, “Heaven and Earth” (2023), copper, brass, nickel silver and patina, 8 × 8 × 8 1/2 inches Image courtesy of the artist

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Secrets of the Magnolia Tree” (2021), watercolor, ink, gouache, and photograph on archival paper, triptych, overall 132 x 90 inches. Image courtesy of Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

Gary Fabian Miller, “Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty-Four Days of Sunlight” (2004), dye destruction prints, 64 x 64 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Tosa Mitsuoki, “Autumn Maples with Poem Slips” (c.1675), ink, colours, gold leaf and gold powder on silk, 56 x 108 inches. Image courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago

Sheikh Zain-al-Din, “Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar and Cocoon on Indian Jujube Tree” (1777), opaque colors and ink on paper, 30 × 38 inches. Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art

the cover of a book titled ‘Tree’ with a collage of a tree’s leaves on a blue background