Rewilding A Forest, Artist and Poet Maria Vildhjärta Westerberg

This film is part of a series called Something Beautiful for the World, which is a collaboration between Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories and Happen Films. Watch all the films of the series here: Title: Once Upon a Forest Created by: Campfire Stories Synopsis: Maria was a romantic, animalloving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards a normal life. As a young adult she became depressed, and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest. The myriad of funnylooking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she s a celebrated twig poet whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden. When a climate related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she s forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place