Forest Time

Some things only reveal themselves when movement stops.

This book grew from time spent walking, looking and listening in the forest.
It follows the experience of slowing down, noticing what is present, sensing what remains unseen and recognising that many lives share the same space.

Leaves gathered from the property were eco-printed onto paper. Photographs and words sit among these imprints, with handmade coloured papers offering pauses between them.

The overlapping and layered arrangement of the pages echoes the forest, where no single view reveals everything.

Although rooted in one place, Forest Time invites an experience that can belong to any forest: stopping, paying attention and returning.

‘Forest Time’ an artist book. The video below shares the book in a page-by-page view, sped up 4x (1:18 minutes). To view a slower page-by-page preview, scroll to the end of this page.

Eco-printed with:

Section 1: Tree fern (Cyathea cooperi)
Photo: Tree fern canopy, underside
Section 2. Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sp.), red cedar (Toona ciliata)
Photo: Staghorns (Platycerium superbum) on a red cedar
Section 3. Blue quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
Photo: Blue quandong canopy
Section 4. Tree fern, plum pine (Podocarpus elatus), blue quandong, red cedar, black bean (Castanospermum australe)
Photo: Curtain crust fungi (Stereum ostrea)
Section 5. Tree fern, eucalyptus, plum pine
Photo: Forest canopy

Unique state book
Structure: Five sections, each sewn with a running stitch to the mountain folds of a concertina spine.
Eco-printed pages: Awagami Bamboo 110gsm
Text and photograph pages: Archival pigment print on Awagami Kozo 42gsm
Coloured papers: Handmade coloured paper, origin unknown.
Enclosure: Stitched envelope, Gmund Gentlemen Blue 300gsm
Text: Kim Herringe
Photography: Kim Herringe

$12o0

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The video below is the same as above, but with no fast-forward, so it plays in real time (4:48 minutes). It will give you an opportunity to view the detail of the eco-printed papers.