Trees Without Reference explores how darkness reshapes our perception of the natural world. Removed from the visual cues we rely on in daylight, trees lose their sense of scale, becoming ambiguous forms suspended in black space. Without context, the familiar becomes uncertain. Branches flatten, depth collapses, and distance becomes impossible to judge. The work sits in this tension between recognition and disorientation, where nature is no longer stable, but shifting, abstract, and strangely unknowable.