The gods are among us in the forest

This project began out of my previous project, I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made which explores natures consistency across the world and the sheer mortality of nature, particularly trees and the ocean, which have existed for far longer than my existence and will continue to exist after I leave this world. The gods are among us in the forest follows a similar path, I began to question why we look outside of this world to find a god, or a higher power, when the gods could be among us in the forest. I wanted to capture a spiritual world inside nature, I combined images of trees, flowers and sunsets together to create alterior dimensions. These images create dreamlike scenes, thinning the barrier between reality and the spiritual world. Each individual photograph has been given a name which comes from a poem, or a song I was listening to at the time of creating the image.