Released 8 May 2026 // Culture Shot #1 // 24 pages
Whisper Network: A Transatlantic Conversation Between Trees
Whisper Network was produced in response to a call for work exploring the way trees communicate with one another, as part of the exhibit At Eich Coed / Tree Sense at Pontio, Bangor University, North Wales (2023). Written collaboratively and at a distance, Briony Collins and Caleb Nichols engage in a transatlantic poetic conversation centred in locatedness: from the Treborth Botanical Garden in Bangor to the Leaning Pine Arboretum in San Luis Obispo, California and landscapes and ecologies beyond.
During this process Collins and Nichols uncovered much: about the ways that trees speak to them through memory and their own family and kin networks; about how constructions of gender and identity are reflected in the rhizomatic structures of tree roots; the differences between cultivated spaces and so-called “natural” landscapes and how these reflect and imitate colonialism.
