Glitchcore Green Haven

Green Haven is a piece of forest kept safe in the dark. A dense mass of trees and bushes floats on a black ground with no soil and no sky. Near the top lies a small clearing with a row of thin trunks, and everything else is leaf: hundreds of shades of one green.

Then you notice the forest is not quite solid. From the underside of the foliage, fine vertical lines fall straight down like rain, or like lines of code. Above the crown a spray of tiny green points rises into the black. At the very bottom a faint green glow marks where the lines end.

The mood is hushed and cool, the stillness of a wood at night. To me it is about what we want to keep. The forest looks stored rather than planted, a memory of nature saved as data, and it is unclear whether it is still loading or slowly being erased.

In a room the single green on black is restful and brings something of nature in without a landscape. It may bring back a walk through dense woods, or speak to long days spent with technology and a wish to be outdoors. The surreal floating forest suits dark walls, plants, wood and black metal. It fits a home office, a living room, a bedroom, a studio or the office of a tech company.