Goodall’s nocturnal photographs have been described as being at once beautiful and terrifying. The artist states “I’m interested in ideas around being lost, loneliness and the symbolic aspects of darkness - it is synonymous with fear of the unknown. In the darkness familiar places are psychologically changed; most of one’s certainty about what is there has been removed as you can only see a few yards ahead. When your eyes have little information, your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps”.
It is this otherworldly and eerie sense that presents otherwise familiar flora and fauna in a new way. The fragility of nature is beautifully captured, preserved, almost as photographic specimens from another world. These scenes hint at the vulnerability of ecosystems and the importance of protecting the natural world.