There are moments in nature when I feel I am not alone.
A presence lingers — unseen, but undeniable. The Norwegian forests hold an aura that is ancient, almost conscious. In the silence between the trees, I sense the thin membrane between worlds — where myths might not be fiction, and where dreams could be fragments of another reality.

UMBRA explores these unseen dimensions — the shadow worlds that exist beside our own. It asks: what is real, and what is remembered? Are dreams echoes from parallel layers of existence?

Through the fog, the forest, and the traces of light, I try to photograph what cannot be seen — the suggestion of something alive beyond perception. Each image becomes a threshold: between waking and sleep, between the physical and the spiritual, between myth and memory.

In UMBRA, the natural world is not a backdrop. It is a living consciousness — whispering of what came before us, and what might still remain, just beyond sight.

— Wilfred Wessel Berthelsen