The forestry area of “Devilla” has served to be the accomplished setting for an ambiguous narrative to be told through a series of black and white photographs; captured on medium format film. I have used symbols in and of the landscape to explore the themes of Freud’s “Uncanny” – that which is unfamiliar yet familiar. With the injection of a womanly figure; I have inconspicuously linked the forest and women to their history of monstrosity. Women were once perceived as the “deformed male” according to Aristotle and subsequently, “The Malleus Maleficarum” was produced to exterminate women condemned as witches. The supernatural female monster. Held responsible for the natural climates and so were answerable for poor crops and bad harvests. / I am both author and subject of the photographs. However, they are not self-portraits. The combination of the figure and the forest invites the viewer to question what they’re actually looking at, to pick out faces and bodies from the landscape itself; mirroring the way the uncanny operates. I believe each photograph to be equivocal as they all have various potential meanings. The images depict more than one idea or symbol within them and because the beginnings of this project was inspired by the way stories change, I intent to leave the plot unexplained. It then becomes the viewer’s individual interpretation that finalises the narrative.