The Unconscious Landscape (2021)

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During the summer of 2021, I undertook a journey with the intention of spending time in recently burned forest areas — to observe what objects, shapes, and stories revealed themselves there.

 

All photographs and videos were made without focusing, as it was never my aim to create a documentary. Instead, I sought to pierce a hole in time and briefly glimpse the ancient interplay between human, fire, and nature — a relationship that has existed for tens of thousands of years.

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Throughout the process, I used my own body to take on the position of the human presence — lying in craters of burned tree stumps, standing in the ashes of crumbled shrubs.

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The journey marked a profound turning point in my life: a farewell to the visible world as it appears to our gaze, and a wholehearted departure into the inner landscapes.

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The result is a new photographic series surrounded by a constellation of texts, objects, videos, photographs, and collages. How this material is going to be displayed or used for the creation of other art works is still largely in progress. Only the feature image - the laying self portrait, has found it's physical form already and has been exhibited multiple times.

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