TO DWELL AMONG TREES AND VAESEN -Explorations in unknown forests

Abstract

The subject of my Bachelor thesis is the forest. My relation to the forest, or humanity´s relation to nature. My focus is the tension between the forest as welcoming, warm, safe, something that we long for, that we use for recreation and contemplation, to relax. And the forest as frightening, dark, unknown, full of secrets. A place where you can get lost. With the starting point in my personal experience of the forest I examine this tension, the concept of getting lost and my/our longing for the unknown.