Taking the idea of anthropomorphism further, of humanising the forest, I clothe trees with underwear. I want to accentuate this idea, using bras work best as they can fit onto the tree.
How does humanising the forest through the process of characterisation through drawing, naming, writing about specific trees, affect how I experience the forest?
Location and false sense of security. Through developing the human or animal association with certain trees they become familiar, I quickly locate where I am in the forest by recognising these trees. The familiarity gives a sense of security, but I am no more or less at risk than I was Day One. There are still unexploded bombs, badger sets, adders, branches that stick out at eye level.
In terms of relationships it’s clear that disassociation and projecting ideas about other people can bring familiarity, a way to locate oneself in relation to another, but it too can become a false sense of security.
I look at a photograph of my grandparents, they might as well be trees as the picture never moves but the ideas about them grow in my mind through the stories I hear about them from family. They smile. Expressions as masks?
Masks – those that people wear to hide themselves and those that people project to hide what they don’t want to admit to seeing in others.
Three ways to communicate ideas through one tree.
