The Rhythm of Fallen Trees

I made this triptych within a series of works during a month-long artist residency in Germany. My work centered for a second year around our personal connections to trees and the forest.
I walked the forest every day, sketching, listening to the sounds of trees, feeling the soft ground of years of disintegration of organic matter, smelling the wind in the branches and the blooming of the mushrooms.

This year, many more trees had fallen. By the high winds, by the lack of rain, by new pests, by so many new factors… Patterns of climate had changed this forest, exhibiting a rhythmic landscape of fallen trees that reminded me of a battlefield.
I witnessed an eerie stillness in the slow dance of trees rocking in the wind.

In the natural cycle of renewal, trees fall, disintegrate, enrich the soil and new trees grow.
But,
What if the balance is altered by different patterns due to climate change?
What if more trees are falling and the renewal cannot compete with death?