The Forest (TRU)

**The Forest is an Anchor Space and Location in The Real Unreal.**

“A Forest, shrouded in magical daylight filtering through the dense canopy of a single tree, provides endless opportunities for resting in a soft nook or cranny. Musical fungus grows on the massive tree’s trunk and in its branches sits Baba Yaga’s treehouse.”

## Locations

* Baba Yaga's Hut
* Linda: The GeoPetri
* MIDNIGHT GARDEN
* Nepantla
* Preservation of Sacred Geometry
* Snail Trails
* Technicolored Party Inside of My Head, But Everyone's Invited Too
* The Mindshift
* The Nesting Abode
* The Three Fates
* The Wondering Forest

## Projects

### 25

“A visual representation of what it feels like to be 25 in the year 2022. An armless, legless projectile hurling towards the ground, crying for no reason or so many reasons, pimple patches and all."

### A Healing

“This creature is bursting, spilling, pulsating, raw, and healing. Its textures support the fragility and pain that comes with aliveness. This piece inspired the idea of "Muppet Gore" and can also be seen as your favorite relatable green side-kick turned inside out. This is a phase in this creature's life cycle that will not be missed, but is absolutely necessary.”

### Bioblob

"Bioblob" was an interstellar drone sent with all of the building blocks for life contained in its biomechanical flesh to the new world to establish new life on that barren planet. However after many years of seeing life in this new place, it got very very hungry and now spends most of its time consuming anything it can get ahold of with its tiny hands”

### Digital Hamster

A reference to Nimsesku from The House of Eternal Return

### Earth Worm

“Friendly worm creature crawling all over the imagination sphere (world).”

### Forest Mushrooms

Interactive mushrooms that can be played by tapping on them. They react with sounds and pulsing light. Similar to the forest mushroom installation in The House of Eternal Return.

### Furtive Glimpses and Perpetual Gaze

“Beneath the surface of our man-made world is a unique realm of possibilities. As our refuse spreads across the planet’s surface and is scraped just below the visible horizon, a new kingdom may arise using our detritus as the scaffolding or fuel needed to survive. I’ve been pursuing ideas of unnatural evolution through my sculpture and installations for the past several years. These dioramas are an opportunity to explore a next generation of ecosystem in a world peculiar to most of us.

In voids that glow from a communications network phosphorescence, sentinels watch intently for threats from above. Umbilicals tether creatures that hover above an alien garden and protect their seeds of reproduction. Tiny fluttering forms swarm toward subtle emanations to absorb energy. Nests of mysterious spores collect within pockets in the cavern floors and eventually burst forth into strangely radiant blooms.”

### Pink Kitty

“A common cozy comet cutie loves cupcakes and astral travels from time to time into different time zones for funzies.”

## References

1. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/#projects
2. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/25/
3. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/a-healing/
4. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/bioblob/
5. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/digital-hamster/
6. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/earth-worm/
7. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/forest-mushrooms/
8. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/furtive-glimpses/
9. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/perpetual-gaze/
10. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/pink-kitty/
11. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/the-forest/the-hermit/