For Slow-Scan Transmissions, I found inspiration in the work of Muriel Cooper and slow-scan television. My transformation of this method provided a mechanism to tune into another species’ dimension. Slow-Scan Transmissions speculates on messages sent from trees to humans. Glyphs are formed by the space between trees in conversation. Ligatures that shift with seasons and growth are ephemeral as the clouds, but they also recombine in recognizable patterns.

A video visualization features the tree crowns swaying (their branches becoming rivers and arteries in the sky) layered with a slow-scan reveal of the glyphs. Field recordings of biophonic conversation amongst trees, birds, and peat moss knit together in an audio soundtrack.

Slow-Scan Transmissions was distributed a mass-run broadsheet of 1000 copies that were circulated in botanical and community gardens, beloved and threatened parks, along with bookshops and community run spaces.