The Forest drawn

Based on the relationship established by a small community in central with the forest, and my perception of it, The forest drawn tries to describe a landscape while questioning the mediating processes for its understanding. Organized into 4 different chapters and approaches: I) The recognition of the forest, II) its configuration as something interrelated with the human, III) the relationship of the community with the forest, IV) and the influence that the western gaze exerts on the relationship with nature, I have tried to sketch a forest while reflecting on the way we perceive, relate to nature and endow it with new relationships or meanings. Colonization first and then globalization have weakened spiritual roots with the earth and its significance. The progressive loss of affective links with the land, with what is closest and proper, the substitution of traditional values, uses and customs for new ones that come from beyond not only alter social, economic, and cultural structures, but also the way of seeing, feeling and conceiving the world. If first it was the adaptation and domination of the environment and its symbolic apprehension by its natural inhabitants, now it is the outsider and the western gaze that subjects the landscape to new relationships and interpretations.