The Dancing Forest

The Dancing Forest is a long-term photographic project that began in 2019, after the birth of my daughter and my family’s move from Copenhagen to the remote village of Onsevig in southern Denmark. In this isolated landscape, the rhythms of nature became entwined with the transformations of early parenthood — the seasons, storms, tides, and forest echoing the emotional and physical changes of our lives. Through intimate portraits and observations of the environment, the project explores the fragile interdependency between family, body, and landscape. It reflects on how we change as we nurture others and how nature becomes both witness and teacher in this process. Love, protection, growth, fear — these forces shape the narrative like the shifting currents of the sea around us. The backdrop of climate change and environmental strain is woven silently into the work, as rising sea levels, soil depletion, and industrial fish farming reshape rural coastal life. The Dancing Forest questions how the fragility of a family can be understood without acknowledging the fragility of the world that sustains it. Structured as a flow of consciousness, the project offers both a personal family record and a universal meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and life’s unstoppable movement.