Trees hold memory in their rings, reach toward light by instinct, and have been sites of reverence across every culture that has ever looked up into a canopy. Arboris Lux begins there — and asks what happens when digital image synthesis enters that conversation.

Projection onto living trees is a negotiation. Every branch, every knot, every surface of bark bends and absorbs the image in ways a screen never could. The landscape becomes a collaborator. A Buddha face emerges from a canopy, a classical bust dissolves into leaf and shadow, an owl assembles itself from the very texture it is cast upon.

Each projection is conducted live, shaped in real time in response to the space, the audience, and the night. The work breathes with the same contingency as the trees. Sacred iconography recurs throughout — faces that cultures have projected meaning onto for centuries, here projected literally onto the oldest living things in the garden. The gesture is entirely of this moment.

Arboris LUX is an invitation to stand in the dark and see something beautifully familiar transformed.