The forest of the title, with its impenetrable mass of branches, obscures the identity of the two figures - a man, barely seen on the left, and his female companion who walks towards him, away from a makeshift encampment. As with most of Wall's work, the photograph relates directly to the scale of the viewer's body. We seem to be placed on the fringes of the thicket, a little way along the path that edges to the bottom of the picture.