SHADOW OF THE SKY

Forest relations can be deciphered through the interaction of fundamental elements, light, and shadow, flora, and fauna habitat. Light and shadow are one of the most distinctive, where from a top-down frame, the sky speaks to the ground. The multiple shifts of textures of understorey especially the ground cover show a palette of the ground cover is correlated and overlapped to the shadow of upperstorey to understand a distinctive floor palette throughout the forest.The interpretation of the frame is from a macro to a micro degree where the forest is viewed as distinct transitions of the shadow being cast. It scrutinizes several patterns to understand the nature of shadows. Additionally, it tries to explore a visual texture-based mapping method to understand the diversity of ground cover and its correlation to the upper story thus bringing out aspects of microhabitat traits of the forest floor.