Into the Wood
Fine Art

Into the Wood

Presence felt before it is seen

The forest as signal and noise. Photographs taken in the woods around Livigno over four winters. Something is always just out of frame. The light arrives already filtered, and the silence is the loudest thing.

12 images
2015 Tarquinia, Italy
Dense stand of bare birch trunks in winter, tightly packed verticals against pale sky 1 / 12
Snow-loaded branches at the edge of a clearing, weight bending the forms downward 2 / 12
Single track through deep snow, trees closing in on either side 3 / 12
Low winter light cutting horizontally through pine forest, trunks as shadows 4 / 12
Forest interior in flat grey light, no shadow, all tone 5 / 12
Fallen tree across a snow-covered slope, the break still sharp 6 / 12
View upward through bare deciduous canopy, branches dividing pale winter sky 7 / 12
Frost-covered underbrush at forest edge, each stem individually crystallised 8 / 12
Distant trees reduced to grey verticals in diffuse mist 9 / 12
Snow settling on dark pine needles, weight just short of falling 10 / 12
Narrow path between pines, snow unbroken, no footprints preceding 11 / 12
Forest at dusk, last light catching the upper third of the trunks only 12 / 12