Art of Climbing Trees

We have become fabulous and terrifying primates with the fate of the world in our hands…

…And, this book comes as a radical creative antidote, as reflected by the quiet explosion of trees. Art of Climbing Trees (A.C.T.), isn’t really about climbing trees, despite every page featuring my daily climbs for a year in extra/ordinary trees. Climbing trees is fun, challenging, and exhilarating however, and I recommend the simple encounter with nature. For me, they also gave a journey, a structure, and a reason to learn and pay closer attention; they gave me a place to play and provided the perfect strange and nostalgic setting for conversations, all culminating in a ‘Greenprint’ – my suggestions for a transition to Eutopia, and how to break the cycle of violence, once and for all.

A.C.T. is based on my walkabout diaries and conversations recorded up trees, combined with endless threads of research and reflections, and the art that unravelled from 365 starting points.

The cover reads Henrik G Dahle & CO., (‘co-climbers’, contributors, collaborators, comrades), and the Co’s can be found here.

Art, freedom, responsibility, anthropology, science, life, play, death, time, family, story… Somewhere between impressionism and academia.

Fifteen years in the making… On 17th MAY 2010, I took one small step off the tarmac, and into the branches…