But Also A Forest – silent book
But Also A Forest is a silent book about moss. The book was inspired by a particularly stunning moss colony that I saw on my walk, and it first started as a series of illustrations exploring the ability of mosses to live on surfaces uninhabitable to other plants and to transform them into strange otherworldly landscapes. But then the project developed into a visual story with the moss as the protagonist, following its first meeting with a girl who stops by to admire it in the park and then the moss's long journey to find this girl again. The silent book format seemed particularly fitting for a story set in the silent world of mosses.
38 pages
Unpublished
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/019414157168e6ed27f08f949a78c37a1b591e07e6b9e864ee98d9bfa60a2af5/Cover-2.2-real-name-front.jpg)
Here you can see some of the pages and spreads:
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5b9a2bb90d871956598cb1352aba58001224a699c6a08402907313d419f3f8b/Moss_10-11.1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/478879e71eb347e815cf606ffcd26b39fe82d8cc8c0aad1e904461a510cbcb3c/Moss_13-14.1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0b4f90e9fb339225955b04c35012e32dfbad2de99bfcded703074c93324ed02/Moss_9.4.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c82c5542060044d684e8fd417233bb00803582b8b5274f2fa5479dfd7d06c71/Moss_24.1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aa9199c1dcfb091e73ea8b3f36c3d0c62b03a07a94a71d19fa104e298824aef/Moss_2.3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5efdde0219f43ea208ac7a4068d1f6aeaed49724157c4b272a5faf8da4cc432a/Moss_8-26.2.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8626313574a4ffa08a79fc4fa1872b3eb83e84a1ceb59e9bc9291be43ecdb7e1/Moss_16.5.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a825f57fca5be3088d25b1541043972b7055a159877131c1119959d826baebc9/Moss_15.1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c04979ef04474e6c7e90c26f8e1a3c10a0de2164343ac7978971cf2d3c47d3d8/Moss_25.5.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af914cdc4c29bf3b292e09616d95b8ce49a4a3f0025cd3d9bc814bbfcf14e621/Moss_6-7.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bb2fd8549d60d6079788a326e90e54d5e72f11d61d4d7cd86c7b2a35d575560/Moss_3-4-w-feet.jpg)