‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, relates the events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage through a high storm on the sea. A tale of man’s relationship to mortality, this project choreographs a journey of an emerging system over 200 years to a world where nature and society are seamlessly intertwined. The system develops through an ageing forest, adapts and alters the natural growth of trees to create a ship within the body of the forest. As the ship evolves it slowly alters its geometries by artificial sculpting through elaborate Bonsai art. Slowly growing to completion, the end of the system within the forest is signalled by the Amber Clock, the resin cycles in the trees keeping time. The armatures alter the geometries of the copse with technologies, which are spliced into the hull of the ship. These armatures of next generation structures to forge the interior of the ships own cargo. As the ships leaves the edge of the forest it reconfigures to take root in the granite landscape as it embeds in a time based carving of its own obelisk.