I sit quietly at the edge of the fallen forest. All is silent, yet something speaks to me. Stumps, torn up, lie on the ground, while twisted roots and broken branches cast eerie shadows on the ground. A violent storm destroyed an entire forest. In 2021, I encountered this site of ecological catastrophe during a period of personal vulnerability and fragility. Surrounded by the silent lament of beast-like figures casting their roots towards the sky, I spent many days reflecting on how my individual feelings echoed with this place of ecological loss. This encounter led me to confront my emotions within the context of a devastated environment. Post-human studies emphasize the importance of mourning practices in addressing ecological loss, as grief becomes a way of connecting with non-human life forms and affirming kinship. Mourning as an act to express participation and responsibility is a public performance, a generative ritual, but also a spiritual process as grief requires bond. Within this framework, l’Incontro explores photography and visual image-making as tools to (re)connect with the environment and as processes to navigate loss through ritual. By reflecting my personal experience within the devastated landscape, the project seeks to inhabit the mourning of the fallen forest. The resulting images aim to weave new relationships and alliances, tracing a poetics of the fall. The project also includes the video piece Assemblea, a performative ritual embodying the act of inhabiting the site of catastrophe as a collective and convivial process. In the video, seven individuals encounter the site alone, yet come together to share a moment of collective time, eating together amid the uprooted stumps. Being together in a place in which I have wandered alone in the past, represents an important moment to socialize individual suffering and to inhabit loss, together.