Short video essay of the ecosomatic exploration conducted by Raffaele Rufo in Autumn 2021 in an urban forest in the periphery of Milan.

Like trees, human bodies are the meeting point between earth and sky. As the trunk pulls upward, the roots are pulling downward. As the roots pull downward, the trunk is pulling upward. This constant tension between different forces defines the movement of becoming. Grounding is growing creatively out of the constraints that define our sensibility and our sentience. Trees are masters of grounding. To learn this art, we need to awaken our senses and our imagination to the possibility of a more-than-human perceptual interchange.

Check webpage for more infos on this ecosomatic research project: https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/danced-by-the-tree