In Minima Moralia – Reflections from Damaged Life, philosopher Theodor Adorno argues that an honest life is no longer possible, as we live in an inhuman society “where life no longer lives,” wounded in its most intimate details.
Today, however, it is nature that is being wounded by humankind — hence the title Minima Naturalia, which I chose for this project, and the use of extremely subtle, minimalist images that reach into the root and essence of a damaged nature.
In a place we are used to treading rather than observing, I decided to extract and isolate the natural elements that surround us, altering them to reveal their forms and details, rendering them almost abstract, almost absolute beings. In these small and delicate fragments lies the very existence of a nature now at its limits, a nature with which we should reestablish an intimate, profound, and unified relationship.
My photographs tell the inner story of nature — its within.
Tiny fragments forming a larger body. Fragile, perhaps, like ourselves.
A flower dismantled into all its parts. Berries already withered. The delicacy of a shell, a butterfly’s wing. The softness of crumpled moss. The frailty of a breaking branch. The fibers of a stem opening. Grains of earth. Tiny drops of water.
