You See What? I Kao Na'ant Ineu?

July 30th 2024
Video
Region
Malaysia
Source
A collaboration between Mutang Tu'o, Blake Kendall & Anonymous.
Formats
Field research
Testimony
Archive of the future
Disciplines
Anthropology
Ecology
Field recording
Themes
Climate crisis
Extractivism
⁠Indigenous science and conservation

I ask you, do you cry when a tree falls?

I ask you, can you understand what problems we have when you look at this image?

I remember, when we made this image, my friend said “when people see this they will think I am the enemy.”

I said, “don’t be scared my friend.”

But maybe my friend speaks the truth.

In the past, we could look at the chainsaw and understand that it’s because of this that we don’t have the rainforest.

When we look, can we understand?

Maybe you understand that my friend only takes one tree.

Maybe you understand that my friend uses the wood to build a new home.

And then maybe you understand my friend wants to build a new house high up because the village was destroyed by the flooding river.

And then maybe you understand because the “companies” took too many trees before, now we have climate change. And every year we have many monsoons that bring floods.

Maybe you can look at an image, but you can’t understand the whole story within.

But, I cry when a tree falls.