Arborlight

Lecture and Discussion on the Intersection of Art and Science
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 4:30 p.m.
Science Center 101, Chang Hou Hall

Programming continues in Spring 2025.

Arborlight tells the story of the inner lives of trees through projected animations onto Swarthmore’s grand tree trunks at twilight. Created by artist Meredith Leich ’08, the animations will explore the interrelationships between ecology, plant biology, place, and art to better understand what it means to live among these giant organisms. The animations will be generated through hand-drawn and digital techniques, showing how a first sprout develops to a mature tree, how water and the energy from light move within the xylem and phloem, how moss and lichen grow on the surface, and how climate change will affect local trees.