Swirling in and around delicate greenhouse-like structures, holographic videos of dancing leaves hover, suspended in the air. The leaves represent the soil’s capacity to heal itself when we provide space, shelter, a helping hand, and ongoing care.

Artist Lou Chapelle's work is a poetic response to Gair Wood, a Leeds ‘woodland of the future’, where 60,000 trees have been planted by University of Leeds researchers to create a living laboratory, dedicated to ecological research and renewal. A choral soundtrack, recorded with the Opera North Young Voices and Youth Chorus, sings the new woodland into being as a future home for hundreds of plant and animal species.

Sound Designer: Fiona McNeill

Sound composition: Lou Chapelle and the Opera North Youth Chorus.

Research: Dr Cat Scott, Dr Thomas Sloan and Dr Robin Hayward and the whole team at Gair Wood.

Co-commissioned by University of Leeds Cultural Institute and Light Night Wigan

Lou Chapelle is a Liverpool-based artist creating immersive, poetic light installations that highlight the beauty and fragility of the natural world. By blending holographic and illusion techniques, she aims to create "meditative magic" - moments of wonder that people of all ages will cherish and remember.