Let The Wind Decide

A Question Most Artists Never Ask

He chooses the tree. He prepares the brush. Then he gives up control.

Sid's art begins with a question most artists would never ask: what happens when you stop deciding what the artwork should become?

Before the trees, Sid was a musician. Later came business, a cafe and a life far removed from the work he creates today. But creativity never disappeared.

Then, during a difficult period in February 2026, he returned to the place that had always given him stillness: nature.

One thought changed everything.

What if I let a tree paint?

When Nature Becomes the Artist

Sid began attaching brushes to branches, placing paper beneath them and allowing the wind to create the movement.

He chooses the tree, the location, the colours and the materials. But once the brush begins to move, the outcome no longer belongs entirely to him.

Every tree creates differently. Some move quickly, covering the paper within minutes; others require hours. The wind changes. Branches bend differently.

Nothing can ever be repeated exactly.

It's a collaboration. The tree and the wind decide where the line goes.

The Beauty of Not Knowing

Working this closely with nature began teaching Sid something beyond art: patience.

Nature does not work according to his schedule. The wind may arrive, disappear or change completely. Sometimes all he can do is wait.

And somewhere in that uncertainty came a lesson about life itself.

For an artist, surrendering control can feel unnatural. For Sid, it has become the heart of the work.

Sometimes the most beautiful things happen when we stop trying to control every detail.

You can prepare everything, but you can't prepare the result.

500 Conversations with Nature

Today, Sid is working toward an ambitious vision: 500 episodes created with trees across different landscapes around the world.

Only 28 exist so far.

One tree in Sitges became particularly unforgettable. A video of the work unexpectedly reached around 3.8 million views, but the number was not what stayed with him.

When he later returned to the tree, a photographer and ballerina unexpectedly appeared. For a brief moment, the tree was painting while the ballerina danced beside it and the photographer captured her.

Nothing had been planned.

And that is increasingly what the project has become: not simply a collection of paintings, but a collection of places, encounters and moments.

Movement Is Life

In a world consumed by speed, screens and artificial creation, Sid's work asks us to do something increasingly rare: stop and watch.

Sometimes he sits beside a tree for hours simply waiting for the wind.

He dreams of taking the project to Socotra, where he hopes one day to create with its extraordinary dragon blood trees. But he does not know what Episode 100 or Episode 500 will become.

He doesn't need to.

Even if the views, exhibitions and social media disappeared, he says he would continue creating.

Because perhaps the most beautiful part of his work is precisely this:

The artist begins the conversation.