Thigma
Forest form
Ivy is thigmotropic, this means it grows through ‘touch’. When it comes into contact with itself it welds a connection and carries on. When it is cut, broken or nibbled it can create multiple divergent strands as it heals itself.
Ivy has a reputation as a constricter or a strangler, but really its a harmless appendage to most trees. It also offers valuable habitat during winter months and its flowers bloom in the winter offering feed to polinators in a season in which food can be hard to come by.
This project was made through an exploration of complexity in forest stands and an admiration for complex structural forms.
