Zheng Andong questions the colonial legacy of natural history’s nomenclature

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Zheng Andong questions the colonial legacy of natural history’s nomenclature

All images © Zheng Andong How to Unname a Tree dismantles the notion of trees as static symbols, revealing them as beings that blur the lines between history, identity, and colonial legacies In Zheng Andong’s How to Unname a Tree, the tree is not the romantic subject we’re used to seeing it presented as. Instead, there is something almost ominous about these beings. Trees have a very different understanding of history and movement; thou…