Monuments of Light

Some of the oldest living things on Earth are olive trees — a thousand years of memory held in a single trunk, rooted in places most of us will never stand. Monuments of Light began with a question: what should technology preserve, rather than replace?

A fifteen-chapter exploration of ancient and culturally significant olive trees across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. Each chapter connects three things: one tree and its place, one local artist or creative voice, and one initiative serving children and the next generation — memory, endurance, and renewal, told cross-culturally.

I originated the project and lead it as creative director and lead producer: the concept and chapter structure, the symbolism and visual language, the tree and location research, the capture strategy, the production planning, and the exhibition design.

Each tree is documented through spatial capture, high-resolution photography, and film, then transformed into reconstructed moving portraits — screen-native artworks with controlled camera movement through the tree's actual form. The captures build a permanent digital archive that can become monumental vertical LED portraits, multi-screen installations, short films, archival print editions, and programming led by artists from the places being documented.

In active development. The first capture chapters, partners, and locations are in motion and will be announced as they are confirmed.