Projected on an enormous floor-to-ceiling screen, Of the Oak will bring the Chapel to life over the winter months, revealing the inner workings and interconnectivity of an oak tree and its surroundings, and the invisible networks that sustains one of nature’s greatest ecosystems – a captivating fusion of art, science and wonder.
Using LiDAR scanning, ground-penetrating radar, CT-scanned soil samples, and thousands of photographs, Marshmallow Laser Feast have created a remarkable “digital double” of Kew Gardens’ majestic Lucombe Oak.
The mesmerising large-scale video installation is accompanied by a surround-sound audio environment – composed from 24 hour recordings made by sound artist James Bulley and arborists at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex – that fills the Chapel with the living soundscape of the oak.
Commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
