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My aim with LightField was to make portraits of three tree species that are essential to the ecological, cultural, and artistic history of the Hudson River Valley. These trees are also deeply imperiled. While oaks are currently doing well in the Hudson River Valley, oak wilt disease is killing oaks in northern latitudes as close as Long Island. Scientists and arborists are racing to save these magnificent trees from disease that has the power to fell a centuries-old tree in a matter of weeks.

Sarah Bird is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates relationships between humans and the natural world in an attempt to catalyze action to protect our planet’s precious bio-diversity. Bird’s current photographs focus on trees, elevating them to their essential place in our web of being, and revealing the beauty and biological wealth of these great protagonists of the living world. Her work is informed by Deep Ecology of the 1970s, recent scientific discoveries concerning trees’ relationships among other plant and insect species, and trees’ vital role in carbon sequestration. She is based in Brooklyn, NY and Santa Cruz, CA.