Be a Tree – Green Earth

Alexander Grace van Zyl

Be a Tree - Green Earth

Interactive artwork

This hybrid digital artwork is a portal into a greener dimension that blends sustainability, technology, and play to encourage us to grow trees – and promote greening places.

3 kids in a forest get ready to play with Be a Tree.
Children's silhuoettes stand in from of a bright screen displaying planet Earth and bright swathes of blue and orange.

Created by

Tine Bech Studio

Funded by Jyske Kunstfund, and supported by Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune in Denmark

Producer Dina Abu Hamdan

Software, Tarim / Media Playgrounds

Poster, Madeline Balaido

Copy writer, Kathryn Reilly


Presented at


I have turned into a tree – Wow! Audience at Vinterlys 2023

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Families queue to interact with Tine's Be A Tree, using their bodies to create shapes that are then captured through cameras and turned into trees.
Two children pose in front of a large LED screen that turns their silhouettes into digital trees.

This new interactive hybrid installation invites people of all ages to become a tree! The digital artwork ‘captures’ people inside a tree and “plants them on earth”. Visitors see themselves inside their live growing tree with a beautiful colourful overlay.

The planet Earth floating on the tall LED wall is created with images from NASA satellite pictures and data stitched together from observations of Earth.

A crowd explores trees bathed in orange lights, at their epicentre is an interactive screen.
Tine Bech illustrated a girl leaping with joy as she turns into a tree.

We were proud to be part of the first light festival off the grid, a new and innovative way to share digital artwork sustainably. The entire festival was wind-powered, using energy stored on a truck-sized battery developed by Vestas Green energy.

See our news post about debuting Be a Tree at Vinterlys festival here.

Tine's colourful illustration imagines the potential for her new interactive project.
An illustration of a father holding his son in the air, their interaction creates a shadow in the shape of a tree.
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