Steeped in European mythology, the forest initially was the home of deities and had magical regenerative powers. Later, in the effort to displace traditional polytheistic religions, Christian cultures cast the forest in a decidedly negative role, as a place of evil, foreboding, and the unknown. In these contemporary photographs of European forests, Moser suggests that the forest remains a contested site. Positioned deliberately from within an impenetrable tangle of branches, trunks, and leaves, the viewer catches glimpses of the outside world: a lamppost, a fence, hints of structures or discarded junk.