Dear friends of trees, If you’ve wanted to participate in a TreeSpirit photo, here’s your next opportunity to artfully, tastefully, vulnerably and safely demonstrate your affection for trees and the natural world. IN BRIEF: TreeSpirit Project photographer Jack Gescheidt here with the news. I’ll be hosting the first large group TreeSpirit photograph of 2009 on …
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 – “Muffin,” short for “Dumpster Muffin,”—her tree sitter nickname hiding her identity from police—is alternately sitting and standing in a plywood box measuring about 2 feet by 4 feet with sides about 3 feet tall. The box is bolted to the top a 10-foot tall 4 by 4 inch post. And the …
Dear friends of trees, Photographer Jack Gescheidt here with more big news from The Berkeley Memorial Oak Grove. Yesterday you received an email from me reporting that UC Berkeley had moved dozens of personnel (UC police and tree workers) into the Berkeley Memorial Oak Grove to again forcibly remove tree sitters and their structures and …
THE SHORT STORY: TreeSpirit photographer Jack Gescheidt here. With sadness I relay news of today’s events from the Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, site of two of my TreeSpirit Project photos. At 6AM today, Tuesday, June 17, the university (UC Berkeley) sent in over 40 police officers and hired arborists to remove structures and cut …
Filmmaker Tamara Gurbis has recorded a few of the larger TreeSpirit Project photographic events in 2006 and 2007. She and I have concluded that the process of making each TreeSpirit photo—all populated with volunteer participants—is a great story worth telling on video. So what began as a series of still photographs depicting human interdependence with …