TANGLESCAPES: A Fairytale Forest, Book III
This is the last portfolio book in a trilogy called A Fairytale Forest. The images depict a dimension of nature that's usually ignored in landscape photography: the complex textures and patterns formed on leaves and branches by shadow and light. These are usually part of the picture, but not the subject itself. The patterns and textures dominate the composition and sometimes threaten to make it dissolve.
To my mind these 'tanglescapes' reflect an important nature-motif in fairytales and Arthurian romance – the part of the story where, lost in the woods, protagonists like Hansel and Gretel or Yvain and Percival are cut off from civilization and can see no way back. The forest presents an uncivilized "state of nature" where they're threatened with annihilation by hostile forces that range from evil persons to supernatural witches, ogres, and dragons, and even "the devil indeed" (Percival).
Fortunately these threatening entanglements yield to metamorphosis and redemption. After reaching a darkest point, the protagonists find a way out of darkness and entanglement into a freer, brighter, and usually richer way of love and life.
(To move previous/next, use keyboard arrow keys; or on pad/phone, click just inside the edge of the frame.)
This is the last portfolio book in a trilogy called A Fairytale Forest. The images depict a dimension of nature that's usually ignored in landscape photography: the complex textures and patterns formed on leaves and branches by shadow and light. These are usually part of the picture, but not the subject itself. The patterns and textures dominate the composition and sometimes threaten to make it dissolve.
To my mind these 'tanglescapes' reflect an important nature-motif in fairytales and Arthurian romance – the part of the story where, lost in the woods, protagonists like Hansel and Gretel or Yvain and Percival are cut off from civilization and can see no way back. The forest presents an uncivilized "state of nature" where they're threatened with annihilation by hostile forces that range from evil persons to supernatural witches, ogres, and dragons, and even "the devil indeed" (Percival).
Fortunately these threatening entanglements yield to metamorphosis and redemption. After reaching a darkest point, the protagonists find a way out of darkness and entanglement into a freer, brighter, and usually richer way of love and life.
(To move previous/next, use keyboard arrow keys; or on pad/phone, click just inside the edge of the frame.)
