Island of Trees is a meditation on solitude, time, and the changing landscape of remote wilderness. In these vast, often overlooked regions, where endless forests meet cold rivers and glaciers sleep, there is space to step outside the demands of modern life. The roads stretch on without direction, the air is thick with pine and silence, and the noise of cities feels impossibly distant.
But nature, even here, is not untouched. The forests are thinning. The glaciers are retreating. What once felt eternal is shifting. This project captures moments of stillness in landscapes that are slowly disappearing, clearings in the trees, sudden openings in dense wilderness, the fragile edges of ancient ice. These are not grand or dramatic scenes, but quiet thresholds where change can be felt, even if it’s not seen. Island of Trees reflects on the tension between permanence and impermanence, between escape and reality. These places may offer pause, but they also remind us that the wilderness is not endless, and its silence is not empty. It holds the slow drama of a world in flux, and in pausing with it, we’re asked to consider what it means to belong to something vanishing.