Forest



"The attraction and the terror of the forest is that you see yourself in it as Jonah

was in the whale's belly. Although it has limits, it is closed around you. Now this

experience, which is that of anybody familiar with forests, depends upon your seeing

yourself in double vision. You make your way through the forest and, simultaneously,

you see yourself, as from the outside, swallowed by the forest."


(John Berger, About Looking)

Forest is a complicated ecosystem of trees, shrubs, herbs, bacteria, fungi

and animals. They mould a pleaching of shapes and structures.

All is overlapped, linked together. Despite of all the efforts to addomesticate it,

it remains an uncontaminated place, exempt of human presence.

For this reason it is probably a phantasy place where nightmares and magic

can happen. Everything is elusive, there is not a past or a future, a story to tell,

but a situation of complete loss of perspective.


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