Place and Narrative - course work

For some forest is a place of darkness, fear and hiding, for others it is simply a place of work and many associate the woodland with peace and tranquillity or a playground of tales and hidden stories.

My interpretation of the forest is through an imagined tale about people, their dreams and a sacred forest. The dreamlike lighting, ethereal atmosphere and ghostly shapes suggest an in-between state of reality and myth.

Although the story seems to end sadly, the playfulness of the shadows and the methods I used for creating these images attempt to ease the overall melancholic mood and remind us of fairy tales.

For our second project in this semester we were given the task to create a narrative with maximum of 8 pictures; our 'story' should be about a place and our final presentation should include some sort of text.  It was 4 weeks hard work to bring everything together but all fun and games!

The forest had dreams to be taken

the world had people to take

So the people came to the forest

To take the dreams away.

They made people happy

But when some dreams gave way

The forest took them back 

And people lived dreamless days