Listening to Trees Across the Jordan River: "Biological NetWork", Installation

Seedling of afarcemon tree in Olga Kisseleva laboratory.

Commiphora is a holy tree across the Rift Valley from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon to Mozambique. Brought, according to the legend, by the Queen of Sheba from the shores of Lake Turkana to Judea and to the Arabian Peninsula, the tree is considered now as a native plant in the Near East. Myrrh produced from Commiphora Myrrha also holds a biblical significance as one of the Gifts of the Magi.

“Biological NetWork” (2019) enables us to visualize the process of communication between two trees from the same family. One of the trees the myrrh tree (Mecca Myrrh) is also related to the commiphora of the Turkana Basin, Kenya from the "Listening to the Rift Valley" project.