Video & Photo Installation

The Forest installation includes a single monitor in a room arranged with rocks and leaves on the floor. On these rocks and leaves are letter forms, fragments of words or phrases that look as if they've fallen through the air and landed on the floor with the leaves.

The monitor shows footage of a forest: the floor, the wind blowing through branches, walking through groves of gnarled trees, and a close up of a mouth speaking. The words are unintelligible, but they feel intimate and secret.

I was interested in the idea that words, once spoken, become part of the space forever, like memories or particles of energy. They gently fall to the ground like leaves, and remain there like ghosts.