Alice Banfield
“The forest-mind out there transmits only terror, now, and the only message I can send it is terror, because when exposed to it I can feel nothing except terror!” – Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story Vaster Than Empires and More Slow, the forest is a metaphor for the mind; a forest that is ‘unexplored, unending…’ where we ‘get lost in the forest, every night, alone.’ I use the forest in a multi-faced practice to construct a world building narrative where I manifest my own experiences of being neurodivergent. I use humour to navigate and question autism’s representation in society, as it is often portrayed as a disease that needs to be cured.
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