THE TREE RINGS BURN TOO
Traces of drought etched in silence
Cork, MDF, 8 pieces, each 100x100 cm , 2025
Eight pieces.
Eight years of drought.
Eight moments when the trees burned from within.
This work gathers dendrochronological traces from some of the most intense droughts in recent decades.
Each sculptural ring is a small archive of that memory — a burned mark, a date inscribed by hand through fire, recalling the years when the earth itself was thirsty.
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1983: Ethiopian Famine
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1987: Northern Great Plains, USA
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2001: Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia
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2006: Syria
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2008: Central and southern south America
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2011: California
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2015: Central and Southern Europe
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2022: Europe
The project explores how drought does not only dry the soil but also leaves scars inside the living matter of trees. When the heat is too strong, even the inner rings — those silent keepers of time — begin to burn.
By reading these marks, I seek to get closer to nature’s inner signals, to understand what it tries to tell us from within.
It is a gesture of reconnection — learning again to listen, to see, to feel ourselves as part of the same living body.
