What the Harvester Leaves Behind

Project Text from Samantha:

In collaboration with existing craft practices, this these works with remnants, residues, and water observed in how conifer trees are harvested to pursue alternative scales and pipelines for making products and buildings from wood.

Through a series of research studies and physical artifacts, the projects considers the tree more broadly than conventional practices of forestry and building today: adding biological concerns to economic ones.

While convention pushes for further standarization, this work aims to reveal trees’ many complexities, and to treat each as design opportunity. A hope throughout is that we might through this efficiency use fewer trees.