A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. | dG1fODl4UWRXYXU5dnc
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00:00 All through the evolution of mankind, there has been this constant connection.
00:07 You can see why this tree is almost dead.
00:14 A lot of things have happened to it.
00:20 When I look out at the trees in my backyard, I think about time.
00:26 This tree has been alive longer than Nonna and, oh, definitely than you.
00:32 This is a vine.
00:33 It's gobbling everything up.
00:34 It's just like there's a war.
00:39 Timber, it's always been a big thing in my life.
00:44 Back to my great-grandfather.
00:48 I don't know whether it didn't lead to my kidnapping, too.
00:54 The first trees I photographed, I was just drawn to how fragile they are.
01:05 It's called internment camp, but it was really a concentration camp.
01:10 If I can bring life to this tree and then have hope, maybe one day we'll get out.
01:19 My father bought my mother this cherry blossom tree.
01:22 All of the freedom that he didn't have in the world, he poured into that land.
01:27 Cold, heat, fire, volcano.
01:31 The tree could die, but the tree could live.
01:34 Be gentle.
01:35 But it's always going to carry the scar of it.
01:38 It's coming, it's coming!
01:40 Just builds on itself with time to become this.
01:45 That's a story.
01:48 That's a life well lived.
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01:54 [BLANK_AUDIO]