Two Trees

Graphic novel · 60 pages · Black and white
Written & illustrated 2015–2019 · Self-published

Two Trees is a hand-inked and painted black-and-white graphic novel (60 pages), written between 2015 and 2019 and self-published.

Set in East London, the book unfolds over a few winter days as a young woman realises she has outgrown her relationship. What begins as a conversation about desire and openness slowly reveals a deeper incompatibility: not a lack of love, but a difference in how sex and commitment are imagined and lived.

Running parallel to the couple’s unraveling, two large trees in the shared garden are methodically cut down by the city council. Their slow destruction becomes a visual and emotional counterpoint to the story: an externalisation of grief. As branches fall, space opens, unwanted, unsettling, yet irreversible.

Told from the protagonist’s point of view, Two Trees traces the moment when speaking one’s desires reshapes everything. Through intimate dialogue and dream sequences, the book explores non-normative longing, the fear of change, and the cost of allowing desire to be seen.

Two Trees was self-published and is distributed by the queer fem bookshop She Said in Berlin.

An illustrated full moon with a smiling face surrounded by stars and fireflies, featuring humorous text about monthly full moon parties.
Comic strip depicting tree cutting with a chainsaw, a worker sawing a branch, and a rope tied around a branch, with text describing the process.
A four-panel black and white comic strip showing a woman on a park bench looking at her phone, chatting with a friend. In the third panel, a young man wearing a baseball cap and an athletic jacket sits on the ground, looking surprised. The woman laughs while looking at her phone in the last panel.
A comic strip showing a woman walking up stairs outside, a girl standing inside a room, a woman drawing at a desk, a man talking with a speech bubble, a woman sewing a stuffed animal, and a boy sitting on a couch saying he is rolling a joint.
Black and white hand drawn illustration of a girl running on a sloped street in an old city with tightly packed buildings, rooftops, and trees, accompanied by a handwritten poem.