What holds a thing up is the part you don't see.
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500gsm · 100% cotton · Hahnemühle Photo Rag · Archival pigment inks · 6 × 18 cm · Matte finish.
Jungle series · 6 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 030 of 100.
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The friendships that survived a hard year did it on conversations nobody else heard. The family that held together through a difficult decade did it with the work of one or two members nobody thanked at the time. The career that looks lucky from outside is, from inside, ten thousand quiet hours nobody photographed. What holds anything up is the part you do not see, and the part you do not see is almost always larger than the part you do.
An enormous banyan tree in southeast Asia. Roots dropped from the canopy, found ground, took hold, and became another trunk. The visible part is enormous. The invisible part, still busy below the soil, is bigger. Nobody who walks past this tree understands what is doing most of the work.
Belongs in the same shelf as The Overstory by Richard Powers, Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, or any book about the part of the world doing its work below.
Walking into a jungle is the closest most of us get to feeling like a guest. The air is wet on your skin within the first minute. There is a drip from somewhere above that does not stop for an hour. Something moves in a branch you cannot see and is gone before you have decided whether to be afraid. The trees have been doing this for centuries and the canopy does not really need you to be here. You stay anyway. It is the most alive you have felt in months.
