This project emerges out of a recognition that the disappearance of the canopy signals more than deforestation—it marks the vanishing of worlds, memory and meaning and accelerates an “extinction of experience” with the more-than-human world. The Suri Canopy Project seeks not simply to record this ongoing crisis, but to approach these landscapes with the humility and imagination needed to rekindle interrelationship. The project will integrate field diaries, on-site drawing, photography and video to evoke the sensory and emotional experience of loss and transition, inviting deeper engagement with the shifting boundaries of memory, environment and intergenerational transmission. 
Since 2022, this ongoing project records transformations along the Suri-Pathra Road (Old NH 19) through field diaries, drawings, photography, and video. Rather than treating the forest only as resource or crisis, the work traces atmospheres, presences and silences, inviting reflection on landscapes that are at once visible and vanishing.

 

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