The Occasional Journal
The Dendromaniac
March 2015
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Editorial
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton, Jessica Hubbard -
For the trees
Rachel Buchanan -
dwelling trees, tree dwellings
Xin Cheng -
Axis Mundi: Long Live the Tree of Life
Prudence Gibson, Tessa Laird -
Forest satyagraha
Robyn Maree Pickens -
Garden City
Holly Best -
Accentuated Breath
Clare Hartley McLean -
On the portraiture of mushrooms
Creek Waddington -
Shade
Andrea Gardner -
bigwoods
Emil McAvoy -
Regan Gentry: Transformer and Master of Time
Sharon Taylor-Offord -
Colonisation versus conservation: a colonial view
Rebecca Rice -
Tae
Bridget Reweti -
The Framing of the Earth
Richard Shepherd -
Wildness in the Garden of Empire
Shaun Matthews -
In search of unknown vandals
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Thomasin Sleigh -
Bo.tan.i.cal: from the Greek
Jessica Hubbard -
The Tree as Traveller: Sakura in space, kōwhai in Chelsea, and the oldest pohutukawa in Spain
Emma Ng -
Seeing the wood and the trees: a complicating history of Hitler’s Oaks
Ann Shelton -
Conversations with Cripplewood
Cat Auburn -
Out of the Woods: The Return of Twin Peaks
Alice Tappenden, Matt Plummer -
The conceptual, the pastoral, and the plainly freakish (or, some of my favourite artworks are trees…)
Martin Patrick -
This is a femme slam.
Sian Torrington -
Explorations
Christian Nyampeta -
Works from the series An Ethnography on Gardening, 2006-2008
Raul Ortega Ayala -
Bent
Jonathan Kennett, Mary Macpherson -
One Shining Gum / Savia Brillante
Christina Barton, Maddie Leach, Zara Stanhope -
Acknowledgments
Alice Tappenden, Ann Shelton
dwelling trees, tree dwellings
Xin Cheng
- Tainan, Taiwan, 2013.
- Stockholm, Sweden, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Tainan, Taiwan, 2013.
- Tainan, Taiwan, 2013.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Sydney, Australia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Tamsui, Taiwan, 2013.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2013.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014.
All Images ©Xin Cheng
About the artist
Xin Cheng enjoys tramping, always has fruits and nuts in her rucksack and would like to be a nomad. Her practice draws inspiration from the natural and manmade environment and is on the constant lookout for makeshift living and material solutions. Recently she did fieldwork in Cambodia, Europe and Japan, started the platform “making-do” with Chris Berthelsen and is currently working on her parents’ garden.