Rita Leistner
Enchanted Forest #11
2019
Enchanted Forest #11 is part of a series of photographs of "forestrial" margins made along the edges of clearcuts in British Columbia. Harnessing the psychological complexities of fairy tales with their allusions to destruction and renewal and the symbiotic relationship between the human and the natural, the Enchanted Forests are photographed using sophisticated lighting techniques to create uncanny and unnatural images that objectify and monumentalize despoiled examples of forests intervened upon by human activities as well as natural interventions such as fires and insect infestations.