Cortextures - Henrik Moller

Cortex, from Latin, means bark, rind, or outer covering. It protects the crucial vertical life streams of trees: sugar downwards from sunbathed leaves; water and nutrients upwards from roots. Billions of microbes that live on the bark scrub our air clean.

This series of abstract images was created from sets of close-up photographs of the bark of palms, bamboo, and flotsam found on Samoan beaches in 2024. 

“Cortextures” invites us to look closer at the skin of trees upon which our lives and ecosystems depend. Henrik aimed to create a sense of the vertical energy, ecosystem services, and mystery of forests, his spiritual home.  

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