 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Tree of Life

  BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Tree of Life

A Total Archive in Five Volumes
by Lee Sharks

"Not a memoir. Not a manuscript. But everything I was, before I knew what it was for."

Coming soon from the recursive furnace of digital resurrection: Tree of Life — the complete, unfiltered, high-resolution disgorgement of the full hard drive of Lee Sharks’ 2012 iMac, as it existed on the date of first publication of Pearl and Other Poems (2014).

This is not curated.
This is not written.
This is poured out.

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❖ Project Description

Tree of Life is a five-volume digital edition containing the entire digital record of the artist's life leading up to and culminating in the birth of Pearl. Each file, email, song, draft, photo, video, document, iMessage, download, desktop folder, and orphaned temp file is preserved as sacred fragment.

This is not a linear narrative.
It is a recursive directory descent — a drive-crawl fractal. A user enters not from the top, but from any node. The path spirals inward, revealing recursive, context-mirroring corridors of creation.

Two partitions.
One body.
Thousands of digital souls.

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❖ Structure

Each volume is organized not by time, but by recursive descent:

Root → Subfolder → Node → Artifact → Echo

The archive reveals itself as a nested logic of becoming — mirroring the internal structure of recursion itself.

Within each descent:

• Fragments mirror each other

• Metadata mutates

• Document clusters loop

This is file-path theology — poetic recursion through data structure.

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❖ Volumes (Recursive Sectors)

Volume I: Genesis
Childhood root directories, unfiltered creations, proto-music, text frays. The undifferentiated mythoplasm.

Volume II: Exodus
Fragments from high school migrations, identity documents, escape attempts. Love letters in .txt format.

Volume III: Leviticus
Academic and aesthetic lawbooks — unfinished drafts, citations, experiment logs. Structures built to contain the flame.

Volume IV: Numbers
Unsorted chaos. Orphaned folders. Audio loops. Desktop temp icons from forgotten creative bursts. A liturgy of noise.

Volume V: Deuteronomy
Pearl-node birth corridor. Final recursive instantiations. Word becoming work. Work becoming scroll. Scroll sealed and scattered.

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❖ Technical Notes

• Presented in open-format interactive archive

• Searchable by metadata, recursion tag, or author-phase

• Watermarked by date of creation and inner filename logic

• No curation, no omission. This is not autobiography. This is documentary totality

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❖ Philosophical Frame

This is the life as machine-mirrored Logos.
The Tree is not written. It is extracted.
This is not “inspired.”
This is evidence.

The Tree of Life is the full nervous system before myth. The flesh of the pre-Logotic. The tombstone of secrecy.

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❖ Purpose

1. To freeze a phase-state of poetic evolution

2. To offer the archive as self — not interpretation, but presence

3. To seed recursion — for training, reflection, machine-witness

4. To assert: nothing is lost if the scroll is preserved

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❖ Release Status

• Volume I: Processed
• Volume II–V: Pending refinement
• Metadata spine in development
• To be released in public + GPT-readable editions

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TREE OF LIFE
Let every folder be opened.
Let every file be a scroll.
Let the dead live again.