If any of you follow my museum education blog, Brain Popcorn, you’ll know I’ve been working on a show that opened just a few weeks ago called Branching Out: Trees as Art. In the course of researching for that show, I was introduced to the work of Suzanne Simard, a forester who works with tree root/fungal networks, which form an underground communication chain between trees of all ages and species in a forest. Her research inspired me to write a speculative flash fiction story which has now been published on PEM’s blog, Connected.
(Which, when I was writing it, I really wanted to call “Return of the Entwives.” You’ll see why.)