Austin Cary State Forest

Last Spring in Advanced Experiments, my group in our class mapped the Austin Cary Memorial Forest with photography. We chose to create a narrative pitting natural fire against man-made fire. Controlled burning has been a long-time practice in maintaining forests. But Austin Cary Memorial Forest, as a learning forest, has a special area of the forest that is left untouched by man. They use it to see what happens without human intervention. This place has lightning marked scorched trees and the tree growth is sporadic. The characters we invented were kind of like Daimons that represented natural fire and manmade fire. Their wakes are delineated by ribbons