A Forest of Signs (London) 2011

A Forest of Signs is a photographic project which explores the presence of street trees as part of a matrix of signs and objects in the urban environment - a forest of signs. The project is concerned with the presence of the arboreal as experienced from the perspective of the pedestrian - as part of the commonality of the urban everyday and a key figure in the construction of an urban imaginary through photography. The London version of A Forest of Signs assembles the images as an animated sequence which allows for porosity and transformation whilst a regularised urban rhythm of temporal succession draws attention to the state of absorption engendered by forms of mobility within the city, in which all changes yet all remains the same. See:A Divided Glance: A Dialogue Between the Photographic Project ‘A Forest of Signs’ and the Figure of the Tree in Virginia Woolf’s Writing.