The Weight of Fallen Trees is an ongoing series that addresses the climate crisis through photographing trees that fell during the June 2021 Victorian storms. As The Age reported, it was ‘like hell on earth: the night the trees fell from the sky’. Trees develop root systems to withstand winds from typical directions, yet what occurred in the storms, were winds from atypical directions leading to them to be uprooted or ‘windthrown’. This was a prediction about climate change made by arboriculture experts over 30 years ago coming to fruition.
The Weight of Fallen Trees is an ongoing series that addresses the climate crisis through photographing trees that fell during the June 2021 Victorian storms. As The Age reported, it was ‘like hell on earth: the night the trees fell from the sky’. Trees develop root systems to withstand winds from typical directions, yet what occurred in the storms, were winds from atypical directions leading to them to be uprooted or ‘windthrown’. This was a prediction about climate change made by arboriculture experts over 30 years ago coming to fruition.