About this minute
- Title
- Scraping Bark
- Creator
- Duncan Chapman
- Collections
- TREE
- Related resource guides
- Watery Words, Nature Sounds, Field Recordings
TREE #6
Bark is the skin of a tree: it acts as a protective barrier against the elements. Using our hands to scrape and scratch the surface of the tree lets us connect to a tree in a very different way. Our skin is soft and fragile in comparison to a tree’s rough, strong bark. We are…