In 1915, danish women won the right to vote. All over the country, women gathered to celebrate by planting an oak tree in their villages. 

Overr 100 years later, many of these ‘democracy trees’ have thrived. Others have become sick or found themselves in the way of modern developments.

We worked with artist and sculptor Dee Wolf Sørensen with a rescued piece of the democracy tree from  the village of Søster Svenstrup. 

The tree has become ‘Rav’, or ‘Amber’, a home for many kinds of insect and wild at kildevælds kulturcenter in Copenhagen. Locals were invited to ‘tell the bees’ about the people, things and relationships that mattered to them, weaving their messages into Rav’s hair. 

With them, their stories were woven together with the women of 1915 and the lives of insects and people in 2026.