To the Earth’s trees, with love.

In late 2025, with the climate crisis getting harder to ignore, we sent out a global call to artists all over. If trees could talk, what would they say? We asked artists to answer that question on a postcard, and then mail it to us. 

That was it.

Honestly, at first we didn’t know if anyone outside our circle of local artists would respond. We weren’t even sure the call would reach people outside the Philippines in the first place. It felt a little like sending a message in a bottle.

Happily, respond they did.

We’ve now received more than 500 postcards from over 55 countries across all continents. What started as a question has turned into a global conversation. 

This project adds all these works to a collection we began in 2024, during the first If Trees Could Talk International Art Biennale. And if there’s one thing this growing archive makes clear, it’s this: hope—even just the promise of it—will always bring people together.

The artists of course absolutely deserve all the recognition. So we’ve created a dedicated page where you can see their names and where they’re from. 

These are real people, from real places, who took the time to reflect and create something meaningful. We will keep adding to these names as the postcards, we hope, keep arriving.

But here on this page, the postcards will appear randomly each time you visit. It will be a challenge to find a particular card or artist. 

That’s intentional.

Because no postcard is more important than another. None is more beautiful. All get a spotlight. Each carries something unique—a feeling, a question, a quiet protest, a love letter, an apology. 

Some will resonate instantly. Others might sit with you for a while. Together, they become something bigger than any single piece.

So we invite you into this journey through love letters, apologies, and messages of hope to our trees, the silent witnesses of civilizations past and present. 

As this collection continues to grow, we hope that it provides everyone with a measure of comfort and continuing encouragement in what you all do. 

They reaffirm: some things are universal. Some things are worth standing up for.

Gigo Alampay

Executive Director, CANVAS & Marahuyo Art Projects