Salix babylonica is a zine conceived in dialogue with a text written by Ada Karlbauer — exploring the weeping willow as both a physical presence and a narrative device.

The publication follows a movement of looking: returning to the same tree, again and again, until memory, biography, family history, architecture, and botanical description begin to overlap. Between documentary precision and subjective narration, the willow becomes a carrier of projections, an anchor for recollection, and a witness to the slow passage of time.

The publication design responds to this layered structure through fragmentation, repetition, and temporal sequencing. Images, typographic interventions, and shifts in pacing create a visual counterpart to the text’s movement between documentation and speculation. Rather than functioning as illustration, the design operates as an interpretive framework, extending the narrative into the material space of the zine.

Salix babylonica reflects on acts of looking, the construction of memory, and the ways in which seemingly peripheral elements of our environment become repositories for personal and collective histories.