In the book ‘Lose your Mother’, Saidiya Hartman mentions an account in which captured and enslaved West Africans were forced into submission by their captors, after having ‘encircled a tree of forgetfulness’ in a slave port in Ouidah, Benin, during the transatlantic slave trade. The act erased memories of their cultures and homes and made them forget their collective pasts and identities.

In this filmed performance, Jade circles a tree in a rewilded forest, where she explores cycles, grief and the trees' abilities to store memory. Through the act, the artist looks at the (im)possibilities or difficulties of placing loss, and the importance of private/collective acts of remembrance in our present and future lives.