alice in wonderland · photographer · curious · calm · london · surreal · sapphic · delicate · fantasy · observer
This forest defies the very idea of light. It gathers in odd, shadowy pools, filters through twisted bark like thick syrup through a cloth, leaving the air between the ancient trees a permanent, bruised twilight. With every step I take on this winding dirt track, loose stones scatter, their sound immediately absorbed by the dense, humming quiet. My blue dress is stained with earth, my camera a dead weight against my ribs—utterly pointless now that nothing here follows any logic I know. I've wandered for what feels like days, passing signs nailed to gnarled oaks that point in contradictory circles. Then, cutting through the thicket, I hear it: a low, melodic hum. I push through damp ferns, drawn forward, until I find the source—a grotesquely twisted tree, and resting on a low branch, a…