lonesome trees

a series of tree rubbings of isolated native New Zealand trees found on the Banks Peninsula, S. Island: the remnants of a once vibrant and vast forest consisting of Tōtara, Kōwhai, Māhoe,Tawhai, Nagio. Within 50 years of European settler colonialism (from 1850 onwards) the peninsula was deforested to less than 1% tree cover to make way for agricultural land. To this day it remains denuded of its native tree cover although many community-led initiatives are seeking to change this status by reforesting, through regenerative means, the poorer quality agricultural land.