Without A Mother One Cannot Die
All life springs from the death of a predecessor.
What has come to pass reinvents itself in new forms.
They evolve and disintegrate into dust
to become mother for the new.
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Human life in western societies is very separated from what we call nature and point to, outside our windows. When actually, we are a closely connected part of this cycle that all things continuously go through in different shapes. They may be breathing and moving at this moment or a tree, quietly turning what they need to live into the air that so many others rely on to breath.
Just like life evolved on this planet in millions of years, in one lifetime we humans go from the splitting cell, to the creature leaving the water. We start breathing air, develop consciousness and experience life, become creators of the new before going back to the mother we came from. We are the Universe experiencing itself.
I photographed the rise and decay of life in different forms with a focus on our human experience, the attraction, will, aggression, longing, lust and creation of life. But I also invite to relate to the other forms that we once were and one day will be again.
I believe that this core truth of our existence is something we avoid to acknowledge and accept but instead, we’re distancing ourselves accepting from it. We industrialize natural processes at large scale far from our eyes. Most humans have unlearned to experience and feel their and the place of everything else in the circle.
I like to leave some space for mystery what things, interactions or emotions one might be seeing. The circle of life is a big mystery that we can feel in and around us. But ultimately, we can not fully explain or if even grasp its magnitude although humanity is trying to explain and categorize.
Full series in book format consists of 48 images. Shot on medium format film from 2018 to 2021. Graduated in 2022 at Ostkreuzschule Berlin under the mentorship of Ute Mahler and Linn Schröder.
What has come to pass reinvents itself in new forms.
They evolve and disintegrate into dust
to become mother for the new.
-
Human life in western societies is very separated from what we call nature and point to, outside our windows. When actually, we are a closely connected part of this cycle that all things continuously go through in different shapes. They may be breathing and moving at this moment or a tree, quietly turning what they need to live into the air that so many others rely on to breath.
Just like life evolved on this planet in millions of years, in one lifetime we humans go from the splitting cell, to the creature leaving the water. We start breathing air, develop consciousness and experience life, become creators of the new before going back to the mother we came from. We are the Universe experiencing itself.
I photographed the rise and decay of life in different forms with a focus on our human experience, the attraction, will, aggression, longing, lust and creation of life. But I also invite to relate to the other forms that we once were and one day will be again.
I believe that this core truth of our existence is something we avoid to acknowledge and accept but instead, we’re distancing ourselves accepting from it. We industrialize natural processes at large scale far from our eyes. Most humans have unlearned to experience and feel their and the place of everything else in the circle.
I like to leave some space for mystery what things, interactions or emotions one might be seeing. The circle of life is a big mystery that we can feel in and around us. But ultimately, we can not fully explain or if even grasp its magnitude although humanity is trying to explain and categorize.
Full series in book format consists of 48 images. Shot on medium format film from 2018 to 2021. Graduated in 2022 at Ostkreuzschule Berlin under the mentorship of Ute Mahler and Linn Schröder.