Alison Orellana Malouf is an Amsterdam-based landscape designer, painter, and artist from Ohio, USA. She received an SB in Architecture from MIT and a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her art practice repurposes the tools of landscape architecture to interrogate the relationship between humans and nature.

Tree School is an installation of three elements: a fence, seed- ling pots, and oak seedlings. The fence, known as Bänderzaun (literally ribbon-fence), is a vernacular Styrian typology constructed from spruce and larch wood. The long diagonal spruce poles allow the fence to traverse steep terrain. They are held between larch posts, which are lashed together with bands of green spruce that have been heated over an open fire. The construction of a Bänderzaune happens on-site in winter, and it is a dying craft. Malouf made the seedling pots herself from molded paper; they are positioned at regular intervals on the fence, and their shape was inspired by the delicately articulated steeple of the castle’s church.