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Born Here

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Indeterminate seedling (cotyledon stage) - too early to identify the species with certainty. Focus stacking. Ecologists call them nurse logs. A dead tree falls, fungi begin dissolving its lignin, and the decaying wood becomes a better place to germinate than actual soil. In some Pacific Northwest forests, over ninety percent of seedlings grow from dead wood rather than from the ground. The dead tree can take as long to decompose as it took to grow, which means a five hundred year old tree spends another five hundred years raising the next generation. A millennium of purpose from a single trunk. Mark Dion moved a sixty foot fallen hemlock into a museum in Seattle and called it Neukom Vivarium, and somebody asked when the artwork would be finished. His answer was that once it's finished, it's just started. The cotyledons in a crack like this, those first round embryonic leaves, contain all the stored energy from the seed. They are the lunch the mother plant packed. Everything after this point has to be self-made. And the bark splitting apart is what makes the whole thing possible, the failure of one structure creating the architecture for the next. David Attenborough described the roots of nurse log seedlings as stilts, holding the new tree in position long after the dead one has crumbled away entirely. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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