Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus SCI-Arc Synthetic Landscapes thesis 2023 Advisors: David Ruy @davidruy, Enric Ruiz-Geli Special thanks to Timothy Morton @tim303 A tree can be merciful and valuable. A tree can bring demise and perform violence to other trees for the sake of itself. Nature is never moral or amoral, but its laws can be radical and ambivalent. Eucalyptus is about the drama of being innocent and detrimental, about the ecology of an alien invasive pyrophyte species. More and more water. They imbibe all of it to the bottoms of the soil, leaving no moisture in the earth. But then they are devoured by fire like the Hellflames for the greed of their colorful stems. Colorful flames of all the tints of possible existing elements. I am flaming. I am the source of warmth and light. Tame me. Are you weeping? Tame me, and I will soothe you. I will defend from the blood drinkers by emanating the oils scaring the ghouls away. I will heal. With love for the trees and with love from the trees for water, love is ecological. These are the planets. They will burn. These are the mouths. They will drink.