Until recently, I had only ever lived in cities. But when I was a child my parents had a house in the mountains where my father, country-born, would take me for walks in the woods to teach me about plants, mushrooms, wild animals. A few years ago trees – often solitary, looming – began to creep into my projects and I started venturing into forests again.
The woodland of Selva Oscura is subjective and fleeting – a netherworld between reality, memory and dreams, where personal history and imagination collide and where a now adult gaze roams, looking for an epiphany or perhaps just clues, as it tries to find its way through the encroaching dark.
What started as a photographic process eventually led to other things, and in 2019 I finally left the city.
The woodland of Selva Oscura is subjective and fleeting – a netherworld between reality, memory and dreams, where personal history and imagination collide and where a now adult gaze roams, looking for an epiphany or perhaps just clues, as it tries to find its way through the encroaching dark.
What started as a photographic process eventually led to other things, and in 2019 I finally left the city.
