Wet Evergreen forest, Southern Western Ghats | Cullenia-Mesua- Palaquim Series | Periyar National Park
The study attempts to identify points of disruption and continuity of forests outside the boundaries of Periyar National Park (Southern Western Ghats) which helped identify instances of old evergreen forests and lands that could potentially have been forests but are now majorly plantations and settlements. The journey portrayed, makes evident the contrasts in landscape yet similarities which indicate that the forest continues through its remnants. These reminders are examples of cohabitation undiscovered, unacknowledged, that allows one to extend the memory of the forest beyond its boundaries. So is the forest within our neighbourhood or is our neighbourhood within the forest?
Recording Landscapes | Wet evergreen forest, Southern Western Ghats (Periyar national Park)Forest Narrative | Walking through the dense forest with breaks on ridges and stream beds and eventually being released into the vast openness of the lake.Correlating Systems | Studying the forest through its complex layersCorrelating Habitats | Study of key fauna species of the forest and their habitat Larger Vision | Conditions outside the forestLarger Vision | Extending the memory of the forest Journey through the forest | Contrasts and similarities inside and outside the forest boundaries- on ridges and slopesJourney through the forest | Contrasts and similarities inside and outside the forest boundaries- in submersible plains of the valleysJourney through the forest | Contrasts and similarities inside and outside the forest boundaries- on the undulated plateauPoints of Pause | Reminders of a forest | Species that can be found beyond
