Residency artists and researchers Other Shuji Yamamoto Artist, gardener About fifty years ago, human kind and forest were closely related each other in satoyama in Japan. Human was part of nature. Manipulation by people took great part of creation on ecosystem. When people did not need to enter the forest as all energy resources and fertilizers had been replaced by chemical products, every phase of natural environment was greatly influenced; Satoyama became desolated, the ecological succession had been accelerated, variety of undergrowth had changed which gives influence on food chain of living including microbes, insects and large fowls, and consequently, gives damages on the biological diversity. How does the forest function in the great history of nature? How is and was the circulatory system occurring in the forest like? By seeking the answer for these questions using my imagination and research, I would like to recompose the landscape referring to the history of the forest. During my stay at Saari, I will see how do people in Finland relate and approach the forest by observing trees and plants in the forest, which have been improved by men. Then I would like to create a forest of seedling. Forest of seedling I would like to collect seedling, from one to three years old, and create a little forest by local trees. I would like to do a research on the development of ecological succession and history of the forest through the observations of collected plants. Seedling plants sprout when they are under a certain condition. However, not all of them will necessarily grow but rather most of them will die by natural selection. Therefore, grown seedling, which has been through many circumstances, tells us stories of forest’s history. My work represents a dialogue with the local forest and the circulatory system of nature.