Shadow Trees is a small, self-published book by Los Angeles based artist Jody Zellen. Composed of full color photographs of the shadows of trees in urban environments, Zellen creates a vocabulary of images where the natural environment overlaps the human constructed environment. The book includes a link to an app which has an animated cover in which enables the viewer to see the images come to life through augmented reality.
Artist Jody Zellen received her BFA from Wesleyan University in 1983, her MFA from CalArts in 1989, and an MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2009. Zellen’s cross-disciplinary practice focuses on ways to integrate interactive art and technology, often using the mobile app as a medium. Zellen has received numerous grants and awards and her work has been exhibited internationally. Shadow Trees, published in 2019, is Zellen’s most recent of eighteen books.