The theme of the inaugural issue of Lumen is forests. The Preface states that this debut collection of essays, visuals and sounds is assigned to the Forest; and is explored by our contributors, without the intention of being exhaustive, in a proximate thematical relation to cinema.

I found this interesting as I have trouble with photographing forests and I only succeed occassionally. This is in contrast to the work of Daniel Gustav Cramer in his Trilogy series:

Cramer says that Trilogy started in 2003 with its first part, Woodland.The second part, Underwater, began in 2005. The last part of Trilogy was Mountain.

In the Preface Edwin Mak & Matthew Flanagan say:

The Forest has been approached as an invariant idea that continues to be deployed in variations of literary metaphor, materialist topography and the mise-en-scène of theatre or film since antiquity. It may be said that its art, at its most elemental, has been to act as a measure of existence; in the trembling of the earth, ravages of time and light that breaks into worlds that are our own. Its woods persist in attracting imaginations that entertain its condition as, at once, an environment for inexhaustible becomings, and being as an incessant becoming in itself: myriad negentropic excrescences in chaotic organic flows, or matter shimmering in the multiplicity of its decay and regeneration.