![[Etching nature scene.jpeg]] Inspired by Claude Lecouteux’s [[Demons and Spirits of the Land]], a study of ancestral lore, this work reflects the ancient belief that landscapes—forests, rivers, springs, and mountains—are alive with unseen presences. These land spirits, shifting in form yet bound to place, mediate the relationship between humans and the More-Than-Human world. The piece echoes medieval traditions in which settlements, boundaries, and rituals were acts of negotiation with these entities—gestures of respect towards a sacred, inhabited earth whose echoes persist in our culture and imagination today.