Living Sculptures: The Art of Great Trees.
Curating nature's oldest masterpieces for your sanctuary.
Private viewings by invitation at our Sanxia nursery.
A Manifesto
A tree is not furniture. It is the slowest possible collaboration with weather, with stone, with the patience of a place — a living sculpture shaped by decades no human eye witnessed in full.
— Greenart, Sanxia
I. The Gallery
Sites, as they stand
once the machines have gone.
Work from our own archive: gardens we built, trees we moved, stone and water we placed. Photographed on site, mostly at the end of the working day.
Residence Gardens
Completed private gardens — specimen conifers set with stone paths, lawn and night lighting.
No. 01
Pine, Path, Pool
A layered pine holds the near ground; the path bends rather than points.
No. 02
The Same Garden, Later Light
Read from the deck: canopy, moss island, stone, then the mountain behind.
No. 03
Lit From Below
Uplighting turns a day-time silhouette into an interior wall of branch.
No. 04
Entry, Single Specimen
One tree against a hard modern facade; nothing else is asked to speak.
No. 05
Against the Stone Wall
Winter deciduous stems read as line drawing over dry-stacked stone.
No. 06
Stepping Stones After Dark
Gravel, cut discs, low lanterns — the route is legible without daylight.
No. 07
The Long Approach
A garden that is spent walking rather than looked at from a window.
No. 08
Lawn, Held
Lawn is not filler here; it is the pause between the planted masses.
Courtyards & Water
Small enclosed sites: light wells, entry courts, a stone basin holding water.
No. 09
A Court Between Towers
Bamboo screen, water trough, one small tree — an entire garden in three metres.
No. 10
Doorway Garden
Lantern light on gravel at the threshold of an ordinary evening.
Transplanting
The heavy work. Crane, root ball, wrapped canopy — a mature tree changing ground.
No. 11
Setting Down
Three people, one tree, a container — the moment before it is committed.
No. 12
Lifted
The canopy is bound, the root ball wrapped; the crane takes the weight.
No. 13
Raw Ground
Before the lawn: bare soil, new steps, the tree already in position.
No. 14
Digging the Water
An excavator, a stone edge, and a pond that does not yet know it is one.
Stone & Water
Rockwork and water shaping: placed stone, stream courses, excavated ponds.
No. 15
Watercourse
Stones set so the water has to argue with them a little.
No. 16
Downstream
The same course read the other way; nothing here is symmetrical.
No. 17
Filled
Grass to the waterline, and a far bank that ends in other people’s roofs.
No. 18
Dusk Over the New Ground
The first evening a finished landscape spends without us in it.
No. 19
Standing Stones
Stone chosen the way one chooses trees: for stance, not for size.
No. 20
Among the Cypress
Placed in a young grove, to be grown into rather than around.
Nursery & Specimens
Trees in our own ground, and the ones that travel to exhibition.
No. 21
Held in the Nursery
Staked, spaced, watered, waited on. Most of this work is waiting.
No. 22
Under Exhibition Light
The same tree that stood in soil last week, now standing on a floor.
No. 23
Night Load-In
Loading bay, floor tape, one wrapped root ball. Exhibitions happen at night.
No. 24
Small Scale, Same Rules
A pot instead of a hectare; the argument about line does not change.
Specimens are not for sale through this page. To be considered, request a private viewing.
II. A Film
The Sanxia Sanctuary
Two minutes forty, walked end to end, under the flat grey light we prefer for looking. No cuts worth calling edits. Pair with headphones, low light, no haste.
II b. Field Footage
Shorter records
from the working days.
Handheld, unscored, nothing staged. The sound is on the file.
Canopy, Moving
Set in a Stone Ring
Working the Branch
One Tree, Vertical
Along the Stone Wall
Nursery Garden I
Nursery Garden II
Nursery Garden III
The Long Walk
III. The Patient Process
How a tree is made
without the gardener's hand showing.
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01
Find
A tree finds us more often than the other way around. We walk hillsides we have walked since childhood, and wait for posture to declare itself.
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02
Move, Carefully
Relocation is a one-time conversation. We prepare the root ball for a full year before lifting, so the tree never quite notices it left.
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03
Settle
In Sanxia the soil is generous and the mountain steadies the wind. Most specimens require three to seven years before they are themselves again.
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04
Shape, Almost Not At All
We prune the way a writer edits — only to remove what the tree was already trying to say less clearly.
V. The Place
A mountain shoulder
in Sanxia.
Forty minutes south of Taipei, three hectares of slow shadows held between the Dahan river and the Insect Valley ridgeline. Arrival address shared on confirmed appointment.
IV. The Experience
Request a
Private Viewing.
The nursery is not open to the public. It is a curated space — three hectares of slow shadows on a mountain shoulder in Sanxia. Viewings are by appointment, in small parties, and tend to last as long as a quiet afternoon will allow.
- New Taipei · Sanxia District · 三峽
- Wednesday — Sunday · By appointment
- Parties of 1 — 4. Children welcome, quietly.