Climate Imaginarium
My Bookshelf painting beside Nichole Betancourt’s installation Trees/Plant/People/Time
I am thrilled to be a partnering artist with Nichole Betancourt on Governors Island at the Climate Imaginarium. My wild and untamed Bookshelf painting is hanging next to Nichole’s multimedia installation, Trees/Plant/People/Time, about people’s tender relationship with trees.
It is the perfect place to go on these balmy days, possibly to dream about trees. My painting and Nichole’s installation are labors of love, gifts from us, from Nichole’s talented crew and from the Climate Imaginarium volunteers to the forest, and to you.
Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island, New YorkSaturdays and Sundays, 12 to 5 · Through October 25, 2026
Reading list
The books on the shelf in the painting: botanists, indigenous teachers, journalists, and fiction writers who invite us to explore our relationship with trees.
- Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our FutureDaniel Lewis
- The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on EarthBen Rawlence
- Finding the Mother TreeSuzanne Simard
- The OverstoryRichard Powers
- Gathering MossRobin Wall Kimmerer
- To Speak for the TreesDiana Beresford-Kroeger
- Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake
- The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben
- The Mind of Plantsedited by John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira, and Monica Gagliano
- Forest BathingDr. Qing Li
- Bad NaturalistPaula Whyman
- The ArbornautMeg Lowman
- The LoraxDr. Seuss
- The Light EatersZoe Schlanger
