In this series, the fossilized trees of Deadvlei, dry silhouettes frozen on a white clay pan, are symbolically brought into the studio. Each image is meticulously processed, pixel by pixel, stripping the trees from their desert context to present them as suspended forms, caught in a state between presence and disappearance.

More than landscape, they become bodies. More than documentation, this is observation. The centuries-dead trees appear as natural sculptures, paused between life and disintegration. By isolating their forms, the work reveals a tension between matter and memory, permanence and erosion.

The series evokes both a geological and emotional archive: the desert becomes a showroom of Earth’s deep time. The tree turns fossil, symbol, structure, a trace of life rendered as mineral drawing.