Treekeepers Nursery

-•|•- Anatomy of Belonging began with a news story about a farmer in Gaza whose olive trees could not grow because an ancient Byzantine mosaic beneath the soil prevented their roots from taking hold. This encounter, where cultural heritage and organic life came into friction, became the conceptual starting point for the work. In the wake of the destruction in Gaza, the story has gained an added urgency, turning the mosaic into a metaphor for the fragile entanglement of land, memory, and erasure.

Developed for the Paltz Biennale in Soest, the project responds to the designed landscape of De Paltz by shifting attention from what is visible above ground to the hidden systems beneath it. Root structures and fungal networks become metaphors for diasporic existence: forms of life that adapt, connect, and survive while remaining shaped by their origins. At the center of the work is the olive tree, a species deeply tied to Mediterranean geographies and cultural memory, here reimagined as a displaced presence attempting to root itself in unfamiliar soil.

The installation materialises as a mosaic buried beneath the earth, depicting a hybrid anatomy that merges olive roots with fungal networks into a single symbolic structure. Produced in collaboration with Syrian mosaic artisan Abdurrahman Hamid, the work draws on traditional techniques and natural stone to embed layered histories within its form. Remaining largely invisible, Anatomy of Belonging invites visitors into a quiet process of discovery, where belonging emerges not as something fixed, but as a fragile and ongoing negotiation between memory, displacement, and connection. Anatomy of Belonging is as part of can be seen until 21st of June. Here some beautiful pictures taken by Robin Meyer
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TK Tree • Fossilised/petrified wood is formed when buried trees are replaced by minerals like silica over millions of years. The original wood structure is preserved, but it turns into stone. It often shows beautiful colors and visible tree rings. Petrified wood is important for studying ancient forests, climate, and geological history.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
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TK Tree • Sculpture
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TK Tree • Gesture
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TK Forest • Long before the continents were scattered across the oceans, when the southern hemisphere formed the great supercontinent Gondwana, the ancestors of these Pyrrhobryum mosses were already spreading across damp undergrowth.
As Gondwana slowly fractured and its landmasses drifted apart, these moss lineages persisted. Their descendants remained rooted to the shifting crust of the Earth, quietly traveling with the continents over tens of millions of years.
Today, species of Pyrrhobryum appear across fragments of that ancient world in Australasia, South America, and other southern forests.
Pyrrhobryum mosses are unusually tall for mosses, with plush, feathery shoots that form thick mats across logs, rocks, and forest floors.
Gondwana is not only a memory in stone. It is still alive in the green continuity of its descendants, growing softly across the forests of the southern hemisphere.
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TK Tree • Installation ‘The Soul of the tree’ by Alexei Batoussov.
L’âme de l’arbre, installation of stretch fabric, Parc de la Roquette, Paris, 2011

TK Tree • Together

TK Tree • Apricot Monkey Tree, Couroupita guianensis, a rare and fascinating beauty of tropical forests with its cauliflorous flowering — flowers growing directly from the trunk. Its large, showy, and aromatic flowers are not only beautiful: they play a fundamental ecological role, attracting specific pollinators and sustaining local biodiversity. Later, its woody and heavy fruits, resembling coconuts, appear, further reinforcing the uniqueness of this Amazonian species widely cultivated in urban areas and botanical gardens

TK Installation • Transparent fabric creating a translucent layer of memory.

Pameran MTN Lab. Residensi Gorontalo
MD Natsir & Vidya