In the midst of exploring how systems and institutions of the visual arts might need to be UN/made in order to usher in and sustain a culture of UN/making/degrowth, the UN/making Network puts forward the organization and functions of a forest to suggest a variety of reconfigurations to the visual arts sector so that eco-ethical ‘art’ emerges as the tall tree layer essential for sustaining and protecting all other levels of their multi-species eco-systems.