All places exist within a psychosphere. Whether known or unknown, locations have histories and stories embedded within them. Lane Cove National Park is used to explore places that hold energies. Specific histories unknown; the viewer is able to sense a life within (or from) the forest. We find a silent figure in some images - haunting, hunting. We search through the foliage in others, wary of watchful eyes. Always, the greenery itself is alive. Specific histories known, namely the mysterious deaths by the riverbed of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler in 1963, intensify this sense of psychosphere and energy. Instantly clear that both had died of poisoning, it was suspected that the couple were murdered. It was only in 2006 that evidence of an eruption of hydrogen sulphide gas from the polluted riverbed may have occurred, pooling in fatal quantities around the grove. Again, the forest alive.
