How to (Un)Name a Tree: At the Hortus (Installation View)
Site-specific installation.
Modified pochade box (field painter’s box), camera lucida, self-published guidebook, wooden tripod.
Hortus Botanicus Leiden, the Netherlands
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/06/simmr-presents-how-to-unname-a-tree
2025
Names and Limbs
Salt print triptych using seawater on Puli handmade paper;
color inkjet print, image captured by book scanner from A List of Plants of Formosa (1910).
2024
Unnamed Tree 01
2024
Unnamed Tree 02
2023
Lattice of Rhetoric
2022
Unnamed Trees (Triptych)
2023
Contemplation on Simultaneity
2024
Nameless Trees (detail, upper layer)
Two-layer photographic installation,
archival photograph (U.S. Marine Corps, Battle of Okinawa archive),
scanned at the Okinawa Prefectural Archive, laser reprinted on newsprint.
2024
Nameless Trees (detail, bottom layer)
Two-layer photographic installation,
archival photograph (U.S. Marine Corps, Battle of Okinawa archive),
scanned at the Okinawa Prefectural Archive, laser reprinted on newsprint.
2024
Nameless Trees + A Pacific Storm (Installation View)
Two-layer photographic installation.
16mm film transferred to digital video, black and white, displayed on CRT monitor.
Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
https://www.threeshadows.cn/jimei-arles/exhibitions/2024/how-to-unname-a-tree/
2024