Handpainted photograph from a series called the Tales untold or the Firefly people.

" I walk in the mountains and in the woods to find something and someone buried deep inside of me, raw, naked, free. In the wilderness, I am allowed to be, a human in all my multiplicities, like the many branches of a tree.
When I walk by the river, through forest, when I climb a mountain, I remember that I am part of something greater.

In the woods i find strange creatures, and the strange ones inside of me are allowed to come out and play. I find or become a firefly, those whimsical pixies of the night, guardians of the beauty of the world.

“ What if photography was an animal and the woods, the forest its natural habitat “by Claudia Rauhauer echoed the process of this series.