The title refers to a medieval folk tale I once came across in a book of manuscript illuminations. Three knights are riding horses through a forest when they come across three skeletons riding identical horses, to whom they inquire, “Who are you?”

“We are you when you are dead.”

So on one level it refers to an encounter with one’s own multidimensionality; of simultaneous being and nonbeing. On a more literal level, the title is a nod to the “death-and-resurrection” motif so common in human mythologies, emerging from the (often distressing) experience of being both self-conscious and moribund. The members of the plant and fungal kingdoms represented by this eye-tree and the ground it’s growing out of derive nutrients from our dead bodies, taking us through the “other,” silent half of our own life cycle.

Again, thanks for finding me. I’m very excited to read your blog (and posting something about it on mine!)