From the perspective of contemporary environmental arts, & integrating a
molecular genetics approach to mapping tree families,

This project aims to explore the agential growth –generation by generation – of black walnut trees along and across the borders between the UW Madison Arboretum and the surrounding built landscapes. 

The project posits that obligations & opportunities to care about and to care for the land in the contemporary moment do not end at the border fence that draws a property-relations line around the Arboretum, 

recognizing that more-than-human world-making extends over, under and through these borders. Taking the construction of the conservation park as an aesthetic and ecological visual cultural form, this art project visualizes the permeability and transience of the border.