naturzustand

Which expectations and standards do we have towards spaces we call nature? The idea for this series came to me while reading the anthology „Naturphilosophie“ (edited by Thomas Kirchhoff). In one chapter, he describes that perceiving nature is no mental representation of an observer independent, and simply existing object (as in the perception of a pebble stone or a bird), but instead that a landscape is mentally created by a spectator from extramental things.

Therefore, landscape is no defined object, it is a construct that depends on individual components as well as the observer’s mental transfer benefits. It is quite literally a scenery.

My photographs are an attempt to illustrate a scenario in which these transfer benefits are not associated with established notions. Instead, components function in an unusual way and begin to perform autonomously to a certain degree.