Vegetation series
2006

 

Vegetation Tree 038, Digital C-Print, 127x105 cm Vegetation Grass 011, Digital C-Print, 61x51 cm Vegetation Grass 036, Digital C-Print, 61x51 cm Vegetation Leaves 025, Digital C-Print, 61x51 cm Vegetation Leaves 007, Digital C-Print, 61x51 cm

Plant light This photographic initiative of plants shot with flash and flashlights represents a line of my work which addresses the threat and activity of the night as a mode of consciousness. The photo sessions are executed in dark parks, countryside's or distant forests during the night. Terrifying, existing, real moments in my fictive world. What relation is going on between plants and humans? We are puzzled about the complex molecular structures of chemical components found in plants, structures which we try to solve our own illness in our bodies. Some plants seems to be in a mental relation to us through neural connectedness. Our health couldn't have survived without them. They can obviously survive without us. They connect through their presence in our bodies and mind, the rhythm of breathing. The plants distanced self-sufficiency brings up something restoring when human life is so full of dependency and endless circles of social problems to solve.   Vegetation: Portraits of Plants essay by Anna Kharkina Ph.D., curator in St. Petersburg 2006, pdf >>>   Vegetation soundtrack by Thomas Gunillasson: >>> Guitarist and improvisation musician Thomas Gunillasson made two soundtracks in 2006 inspired by the Vegetation series. This is one of of them.   Info text in Swedish/English, 2006 pdf >>>   This project was party funded by AF Kultur