ONE DAY HERE THERE WILL BE A FOREST
This ongoing project is a reflection on the experience of inhabiting a place in transition—physically, symbolically, and ecologically—while engaging with broader questions of identity, belonging, and our relationship with the territory. What began as a documentation of life in a countryside house awaiting renovation has evolved into an exploration of regeneration and labour, where the act of dwelling extends beyond shelter to include working with the rhythms of the natural world.
Rather than rejecting the countryside as nostalgic retreat, the work moves between the dream and the reality of rural life. It acknowledges the allure of imagining the countryside as refuge, while also attending to the discomforts and physical demands of building and working the land. What emerges is a play between aspiration and compromise, poetry and labour, where the idea of home and the forest remain in continuous negotiation.
Philosophical ideas of dwelling as existence (Heidegger), and the house as a site of imagination (Bachelard) resonate here, but the focus is on the soil, the forest-to-come, and the fragile balance between human intervention and natural processes. Visually, the project blends documentary photography with more poetic images, some reworked through alternative processes such as gum bichromate printing. These tactile interventions emphasize materiality, imperfection, and transformation.
At its core, One Day Here There Will Be a Forest asks how we might inhabit and shape our surroundings seeking meaning not in permanence, but in transition, collaboration and our impact on the future of our environment.