Alma's return

In 2019, I created a landscape in the forest adjacent to Haglung Skola (Sweden) that looked like the remains of an abandoned civilization. Over the last five years, nature has appropriated further components of the walk-in landscape installation.
Textile objects have decayed, natural materials such as leaves and grasses have become entangled, and colored elements have been bleached by weather and sun.
 In the spirit of searching for traces, I went in search of Alma's remains of civilization and removed wild entanglements of half-rotted ropes, generating a new order with the dwindling remains.
Days spent dealing with the transformed remains and the future-changing legacies of my human intervention in nature made me reflect on man's hubris in being able to appropriate nature. Ultimately, we are powerless, even if we imagine that we can gain control over nature. The destruction of nature by humans is gigantic, but nature's vengeful reaction is astronomical.


Haglund Skola
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