A Forest (See into the trees) grows out of Shadenova’s long-standing resonance with the idiom “not seeing the forest for the trees” as the phrase resonates with both artistic process and lived experience: the pull between obsession with detail and the lure of an imagined “whole.” By isolating the forms of trees yet inviting them into collective rhythm, the work meditates on the interplay between part and whole. Is the forest merely an accumulation of trunks, or does it possess a spirit beyond its parts? The installation suspends this paradox, exploring how perception is shaped by the way complexity is framed — whether fragmented into details or expanded into wholes. Resonant with the atmosphere of The Cure’s 1980 song A Forest, the work drifts between clarity and disorientation, seeking meaning in both the singular and the collective.