Bio4Climate’s Associate Director of Regenerative Projects Alexandra Ionescu has a photograph featured in the group exhibition “Learning with Trees: Artists and Ecologies of Connection.”
The photograph, taken in 2019 during a biomimicry field trip in an old-growth forest on Meares Island in Tofino, British Columbia, depicts a 1,000-year-old red cedar—what Suzanne Simard refers to as a “mother tree.” The image marks a pivotal moment in which Alexandra was invited to begin perceiving nature beyond its visible, static form and to develop a new way of relating to, and being in relationship with, the more-than-human world. By shifting the camera sideways, a vortex-like movement emerged, suggesting the presence of invisible processes and relational energies that extend beyond what the eye can perceive.
The exhibition is open Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5 PM, at HallSpace Gallery, 950 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, MA. A related exhibition on the same theme is also on view at the Scollay Square Gallery on the third floor of Boston City Hall.
Posted: June 19, 2026