I just released a zine of forest images called Primordial with @al.palmer of @brownowlpress!
The forest has been a place of beauty and wonder and also a place of fear and danger represented in old folklore and fairytales to modern stories and films. I have always loved being in nature surrounded by trees. I often see beings - human like with arms reaching out to me.
I am drawn to a modern retelling of an ancient folktale about the dangers of the forest called The Erl-King by Angela Carter… I love the way she describes the forest.
“The two notes of the song of a bird rose on the still air, as if my girlish and delicious loneliness had been made into a sound. There was a little tangled mist in the thickets, mimicking the tufts of old man’s beard that flossed the lower branches of the trees and bushes; heavy bunches of red berries as ripe and delicious as goblin or enchanted fruit hung on the hawthorns but the old grass withers, retreats. One by one, the ferns have curled up their hundred eyes and curled back into the earth. The trees threaded a cat’s cradle of half-stripped branches over me so that I felt I was in a house of nets and though the cold wind that always heralds your presence, had I but known then, blew gently around me, I thought that nobody was in the wood but me.”
