The forest always offers room for fantasies of all kinds, especially of a mystical nature, as it is not only home to numerous wild animals, but also a mysterious place that people are afraid of. A painting from the German Romantic period, created around 1858 by Moritz von Schwind, bears the same title, ‘Apparition in the Forest’; Moritz von Schwind’s painting shows a man in the forest at dusk, the new moon is shining in the sky and a woman with long brown hair, barefoot and wrapped in a white, wide robe, is standing in front of him, floating away from him. The man seems to want to reach for her. My painting shows a light-coloured globe floating like an apparition in front of a strange forest whose ‘trees’ are not trees at all, but plant-like creatures that seem to be moving forward behind the globe. And perhaps the viewers of this painting will see other ‘apparitions’ in this strange forest…