#nature study
Instant of Thought 1 / July 2020
From Foreign Soil 8 / July 2020
Monstrous May Challenge- Day 4: Iconic Settings
I love a good forest. Forests are often though of as liminal spaces—somewhere to be travelled through, not dwelled in. A place between places. I always loved C.S. Lewis’s concept of the Wood Between Worlds. In the Magician’s Nephew, the chronological first of the Narnia books, this is a place that Diggory and Polly visit; it’s full of calm pools that are really portals to their world and many others.
I think this forest might be a similar place, somewhere Teddy passes through with Seir. Somewhere not-quite-right, far quieter than a winter wood ought to be. No birdsong, no life. Just the trees and the snow, and a boy and his demon.
This is a study I did in acrylic a few weeks ago for class