Ann Naustdal – Norway
The Forest Floor !! – a circle of the last burning matter as the forest fire dies down.
It is the end of the fire, a dried out, blackened landscape, with small clusters of glowing embers just before the beginning of a restoration.
The tapestry is part of the Forest Floor series, which relates to the aftermath of a forest fire, where the forest’s circle of life starts its own restoration. In the blackened landscape, glowing embers, light, and sporadic, intensely colourful vegetation appear with new seeds sprouting, making use of newly available nutrients. Seeds love the carbon rich soil that a fire leaves behind; seedlings pop up almost immediately and eventually grown into dense stands of trees.