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Underleaf · Forest Series
Underleaf
A personal series on the green hour became a small edition a tea house now hangs in its quietest room.
Underleaf is the light beneath a canopy in the half hour before rain: green going to grey, leaves moving long enough to blur. I shot it for myself; a tea house found it and gave it a wall.
Series
Underleaf, eight frames
Made With
Field camera, long exposure, forest light
Now At
Fern & Ash tea house
The Series
What the green hour held
Beneath a canopy before rain, the light goes soft and the leaves never stop moving. Long exposures turn that into a single green field, calm and a little uneasy. Eight frames, shot over a wet fortnight, edited down from many more, sequenced lightest to deepest.
8
Frames In The Edition
14
Days In The Forest
2
Print Sizes
1
Tea House Wall
The Work
The contact sheet
Underleaf as a contact sheet: eight frames of the green hour, sequenced light to deep.
The Edition
Eight frames, two sizes, archival pigment on rag. Signed, sequenced, made to hang together.
What This Is Not
Not a composite or a filter. Each frame is one long exposure of real light under real leaves.
“The room is calmer with Ilse's forest on the wall. People lower their voices without being asked.”
Owner, Fern & Ash
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