Forest of SE15

A medium-sized tree with a straight trunk and wide leaf canopy in a street
Persian ironwood, Bellenden Road

In this long-term project, started during lockdown in 2020, I visited each of the 2,222 street trees in my postcode area of SE15. Spending a moment with each tree, I took a small bark rubbing on paper. These marks were assembled to create a large-scale “map” of the area’s urban forest at the time of making.

The completed “forest” of 2,222 individual bark rubbings