The wedding guests are human-tree hybrids. Humans and trees entwine and merge to celebrate the marriage of Miss Fir Conifer of Pine Valley and Jean Wyse de Neaulan, grand chief ranger of the Irish National Foresters. Joyce conjoins sociopolitical history and natural history in a fantastical tree wedding ceremony. There is an enchanting section in the “Cyclops” episode in which two Irish nationalists lament Ireland’s treeless state: As treeless as Portugal we’ll be soon, says John Wyse, or Heligoland with its one tree if something is not to reafforest the land. Would you believe me if I told you the Irish Tree Alphabet grew from a seed rooted within James Joyce’s Ulysses? Yes, somehow this modernist text offers a way to re-forest literature and our environmental imaginations. Combining the ancient script Ogham with Irish and English, her Irish Tree Alphabet transforms words into an arboreal language of place and belonging. Artist Katie Holten seeks to decolonize language and rewild the imagination by transforming letters into trees.
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