The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia — one of the largest temperate rainforests on earth, the coastal stretch of forest running from the top of Vancouver Island up into the Alaska panhandle where spirit bears and grizzlies move through old-growth trees — reached Georgia Green through a book rather than a visit, and the distance between the source and the response is what the self-portrait holds.
The series companions (Self Portrait and Tiger in the Bear Rainforest) approach the same landscape from different positions: one placing Georgia herself in those trees, one placing her recurring animal — the tiger from Judith Kerr, from children’s book memory, from the imagination — there instead. CMYK halftone, printed by hand on Context Birch paper, the warm tone of the substrate working with the forest palette. Signed. £75.
