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Current Overlaps
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What are Overlaps
An Overlap is a moment, action, or shared experience hosted by a specific Highly Sensitive Tree.
Some Overlaps invite quiet presence. Others invite engagement, contribution, interpretation, creativity, or care.
Together, they shape how people, technology and nature meet — over time.
An Overlap isn't something you "own" or "subscribe to" or "download."
They're spaces to go to - digital spaces that help us connect with real trees.
Think of them as containers that hold meaning.
Overlaps can have "seasons" (for example, they might last for 3-4 months). They can be brief. Or enduring. They may involve observation, art, music, data, science, story, or stewardship.
Whatever the form, each one belongs to a particular Highly Sensitive Tree and becomes part of its unfolding story.
The 3 Types of Overlap
Overlaps move us from attention, to meaning, to responsibility.
Attentive
Presence and Noticing.
Attentive Overlaps are about attention without demand.
They invite listening, watching, and simply being with a Highly Sensitive Tree — without intervention, contribution, or obligation.
This is the foundation: learning to notice.
Attentive Overlaps aren't about changing anything.
They're about helping us to be present.
Examples
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Field observations and site visits
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Photography and sound moments
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Biodiversity tracking and seasonal noticing
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Public sensor readings and environmental snapshots
Interpretive
Meaning and Translation
Interpretive Overlaps turn attention into understanding.
They translate what is sensed, measured, or observed into shared meaning — through art, music, science, story, and dialogue.
This is where nature begins to speak through human interpretation.
Interpretive Overlaps are about responding with meaning.
Examples
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Paintings, music, stories, dance, and performance
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Talks, workshops, and masterclasses
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Interpretation of sensor and ecological data
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Scientific or creative dashboards and narratives
Responsive
Stewardship and Care
Responsive Overlaps carry responsibility.
They are not just expressive or explanatory — they act.
Responsive Overlaps involve commitment:
to contribute, to fund, to commission, to conserve, or to steward over time.
It's no longer just about observing or interpreting — these Overlaps make us accountable. And its where care becomes practice.
Examples
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Stewardship actions and long-term care commitments
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Funding or commissioning new creative or scientific work
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Sensor deployment and infrastructure support
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Conservation, documentation, or restoration actions
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Sponsorship and direction of future Overlaps
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