I Seek the World (2025)
What began with the intent to graduate with a virtual production-short film (see above), morphed into a photobook about our human perspective and the world beyond what we can see, using trees to get there. Thus, the world beyond the trees.
There’s a quote by C.S. Lewis, in which he wonders where the beauty resides in a tree, that rapidly evolved this project into what i later graduated with. Here it is:
“Precisely where, he asked, does the beauty of a tree, for example, reside? Like every other physical object, a tree is made up of atoms, and atoms are identical and without color. So, when you call a tree beautiful you are actually speaking of something other than the atoms of which it is made. (…) How then does the beauty of the tree arise? Shape, size, color, touch and the like are simply the names we call our sensations, and no amount of study can ever bring the notion of beauty to the tree. Beauty must therefore arise from some nonmaterial relation between the tree and myself.”
Kilby, C.S. / Gilbert, R.G. - ‘C. S. Lewis: Images of His World’ (1973)