The Urban Tree Oracle.

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The Urban Tree Oracle is a collective tool for climate resilience through a series of scores, embodiment exercises, handmade tree ink, and drawing prompts that introduce us to our more-than-human kin, urban trees.  The 26 trees include ones that are considered “invasive” or “weed trees, others that were planted intentionally and some that have seeded themselves.  They make up our urban tree canopy, which has an essential role in climate adaptation

A child of ancient divination tools that look to the natural world for clues, the Urban Tree Oracle fosters an animistic awareness and insight into the countless threads that bind all beings together in relationship.  One aspect of each tree’s role in our ecosystem is highlighted and translated to participants through a poetic score, which is experienced in embodied sensory experimental practices.  The tree speaks through the Urban Tree Oracle by way of their tannins, pigments, and material self, which are processed into inks used to create oracle cards through a monoprinting and drawing process.