Brief:

A quote from this chapter: ‘In this world, it is instantly obvious that something is odd. No houses can be seen in the valleys or plains. Everyone lives in the mountains.’ (lightman, p28)

Lightman tells us about a world where people built their homes on stilts in the mountains, for the further they are from the earth the longer they would live.

The reasoning behind my images is that I felt that the chapter had a great interest in height and age. I decided that trees were a perfect example in both subjects. Each photograph has been taken to accentuate the height of nature and to give the impression that each tree is looking over you, possibly even thinking that you are ‘spent, weak and shortsighted’.

I tried to capture the age of the trees through their bark. Seeing each crease as a wrinkle and each tear a scar, I witnessed the similarities between their skin and ours.

If we were as tall as them, it may be possible we would live just as long.