Russell Barajas - Secret Lives of Trees

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All skin and limbs and supple curves. It is hard not to anthropomorphize them. Mother Nature, after all.

Trees in human form is nothing new—as a life-long Tolkien fan, when walking through a forest I often imagine Ents and Entwives. But one day I saw a slashed and wounded tree, a creature in a glade and recognized the female caught within the bark of her skin. That became the first of this series on how we can sometimes repurpose what we see, and how a tree can take on a sensual human form, can seem almost shocking in its unashamed nakedness.

Yet what right have we to be shocked? It’s just a tree, after all, as heedless of us as the clouds in the sky.

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These images are silver gelatin prints, using traditional darkroom methods, and printed on fiber-based paper. The hand-applied color is oil-based. Sizes vary.

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