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255 N O T E O N T H E I M AG E S Photoworks from the Millennial Forest Project (2000–2004) by Meridel Rubenstein are made with vegetable inks printed digitally on tree bark paper hand coated with ground mica and gum arabic, each 46×23". Cover: New Growth Tapestry, 60×46" in 3 sections. (Dinh Q. Le, Southern California artist living in Saigon, with 4 trees from Angkor Wat). Introduction: Spong Tree, Ta Prohm, Siem Riep, Cambodia. Chapter 1: Village Tree, Tien Lac village, Giang Province, Vietnam, 1,000 yrs old. Chapter 2: Bald Cypress, Bayou de View, E. Arkansas, between 800 and 1,000 years old. Chapter 3: Tree at Old Chiang Mai, excavation Wat E-Kang, Thailand. Chapter 4: Fire Pine, S Site, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Chapter 5: Bodhi Tree, Botanical Gardens Temple, Saigon. Chapter 6: Bristlecone Pine, cousin of “Methuselah,” over 4,700 years old. Methuselah is recognized as the oldest dated tree in the world. Both trees are tagged and located in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest at Inyo National Forest near Bishop, California. Chapter 7: Temple Tree, at Hien Lam Pavilion, Imperial City Hue. Chapter 8: Pinchot Sycamore, circumference 23'7", located in Simsbury, Connecticut, the largest tree in the state. Approximately 425 years old. It is the only known tree of its age and species in the United States. Chapter 9: Queen Tree, Cuc Phuong National Forest, Vietnam, over 1,000 years old. Chapter 10: Piñon Pine, Capulin Volcanic Monument, near Clayton, New Mexico, 600 years old. Chapter 11: Tree at Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Chapter 12: Post Oak, S. Osage County, Oklahoma. Between 300 and 500 years old. Located in Cross Timbers ancient forest along the eastern flank of the southern Great Plains, dividing the deciduous eastern forests from the Great Plains. ...