“the Bialowieza Forest is also a kind of fantasy space, being the primal forest, a forest of myth, so to speak, because it’s THE forest. It’s basically how the whole of Europe looked 8,000 years ago and I find that fascinating.”
NATALIE WICHMANN: “It is. The idea that those trees weren’t planted or cut by human hands makes it very special, right?”
“Yes, it’s a very old place. And the forest is full of images: It’s a generic forest, but it’s also somehow a super-forest. It’s all the images you have ever seen of a European forest combined.”
https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/interviews/2018_interview/interview_joachim_koester/
