1 of 37

Curricular Suggestion

​

Spend some time in some of your favorite spots outside.

​

Find a tree that you like

​

Sit down and draw it

​

Write about it from your point of you

​

Write from the trees point of view

​

Make a poem from the writing

​

​

​

2 of 37

3 of 37

4 of 37

5 of 37

Beyond their aesthetic and utilitarian importance, urban trees seem to fill a deeper human need.

David Paul Bayle 

​

6 of 37

7 of 37

8 of 37

9 of 37

​

Perhaps they are reminders of the inexorable cycles of the natural world.

David Paul Bayles

​

10 of 37

11 of 37

12 of 37

13 of 37

14 of 37

15 of 37

16 of 37

​

Perhaps they serve as eddies and rills of slowness and sureness within the frantic rush of our urban environment.

David Paul Bayles

​

17 of 37

18 of 37

19 of 37

20 of 37

21 of 37

22 of 37

With one eye towards the simplicity of linear geometry and the other fascinated by the narrative potential of juxtaposition, Bayle’s images compel us to reevaluate the manufactured naturalism of our daily environment.

Glenn Willumson, Director , Graduate Program in Museums Studies, College of fine Arts, University of Florida

 

23 of 37

24 of 37

25 of 37

26 of 37

27 of 37

28 of 37

​

…they are also a reminder that no matter how many trees we destroy, often for trivial purposes, no matter how much we fool ourselves about our own delegated destruction of them, we cant’ live without trees.

David Paul Bayles

 

29 of 37

30 of 37

31 of 37

32 of 37

33 of 37

34 of 37

35 of 37

…to reveal the boundaries where the live and the inert intersect

David Paul Bayles

​

36 of 37

37 of 37

Images are from The Urban Forest by David Paul Bayles

Constructed by Kathryn Ricketts