The Hidden Forest, Nantucket
01st March 2020
Recently I started to work on a 2017 photo shoot from a site on Nantucket Island that is known as "The Hidden Forest." I guess I put this material on the back burner because I had other things to work on.
The "Hidden Forest" is a fairly untouched plot of privately owned land. A Tuckernuck native told me about it in 1994 and I finished 3 large cut & paste collages at the time. In 2017 I found the site again although I had a hard time locating it. Not on any map and one should seek permission to enter, I kept asking people randomly if they knew it. It took me most of my 2017 trip to find it after a few false leads.
I really didn't think I had shot anything I could use in 2017. Recollections from my 1994 visits were that this semi-secret place was truly magical (in the mythic sense)- where the air was laced with potions and dreams. My two decades of expectations could not possibly be met.
Well, I was wrong.
The "Hidden Forest" is a fairly untouched plot of privately owned land. A Tuckernuck native told me about it in 1994 and I finished 3 large cut & paste collages at the time. In 2017 I found the site again although I had a hard time locating it. Not on any map and one should seek permission to enter, I kept asking people randomly if they knew it. It took me most of my 2017 trip to find it after a few false leads.
I really didn't think I had shot anything I could use in 2017. Recollections from my 1994 visits were that this semi-secret place was truly magical (in the mythic sense)- where the air was laced with potions and dreams. My two decades of expectations could not possibly be met.
Well, I was wrong.