A branch, sprig, bough, shoot, crumple, or crease examines Lebanese cedar trees (Cedrus libani) planted outside of Lebanon to explore possible parallel narratives between the diaspora of people and trees. The piece, which is inspired by my Lebanese/English-Scottish-Dutch-German ancestry, documents ‘Cedrus libani’, their surrounding environments, and the humans that interact with them to juxtapose wider issues such as climate change, diaspora, and post-colonial environmentalism with more personal subjects including personal heritage, pathology, herbal medicine, translation, and intergenerational trauma.
