To Grow the Whispering Forest
5/10 sections recovered · name · leaderboard description · match catalog cover · match catalog tags · match catalog funding · leaderboard
$970 displayed raised · 1 season · best rank #576 in Season 7
Send a message to a tree. Watch it answer in light. The Whispering Forest reconnects huma…
ArtCommunicationEcologyMagicStewardshipTrees ai-technologyarts-mediaclimate-ecology
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About
A glowing tree that listens to people. Send it a message, and your words become colours and rhythms of light, mixing with other messages in the branches to create a symphony of intention and emotion. (We will build WITH the trees, not override them)
Impact
The Whispering Forest reminds that we are forest, and invites us to talk with trees again. By weaving our messages into their branches as light, technology becomes part of nature instead of separating us from it.
Progress
The idea has grown into a practical design. I have mapped out how Whispering Forest will work, developed the technical specifications and planned the first build. The next step is tangible: build and test the first working prototype.
Team
I have spent 20 years working with performance technology, alongside a background in permaculture and a life spent wandering forests. As a practising druidic magician, I am also quite committed to the idea that trees are worth talking to.
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 7 | $122 | $183 | $305 | $244 | $549 | $0 | $20 | $447 | 1.5x | 3.5x | 3.7x | $970 | — |
| Total | $122 | $183 | $305 | $244 | $549 | $0 | $20 | $447 | — | — | — | $970 | — |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/whsipering-forest
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Not recovered: creator, links, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.