Ded-wood, Massachusetts

A most morbid town forest

I’ve been saving this one for almost a year.

You know those times when you’re driving along a busy highway and the two lanes suddenly diverge, wrapping around a thicket of woods? The thought of what’s hidden within those woods probably doesn’t cross your mind too often: nor the question of whether you can go into those woods yourself. It’s a choked forest—a piece of the natural world partitioned by infrastructure. But that partitioning doesn’t automatically shut down the life cycles happening within the woods. The trees persist, animals still find their way in and out of the undergrowth, and occasionally, humans do this as well.