Rescue evolved from a walk home one cold and wet afternoon in January 2007. Noticing that people had left their Christmas trees outside their houses I began to feel increasingly sorry for them. At Christmas time the tree is uprooted from its environment and placed as the focal point of a room in someone else's home. They are celebrated for their beauty and seasonal significance but as soon as that time has passed they're cast outside in the cold, homeless once more. As an attempt to save them from their grim fate I picked up a tree, and then another, and another. I had soon accumulated 11 (very large and heavy) trees.

Rescue documents one girl's plight to memorialise the anonymous and already forgotten. Anthropomorphizing the forgotten trees into individuals who need saving, Rescue is an act of human compassion upon, ironically, inanimate life-forms.