From Wasteland to Wilderness
Have you ever wondered, what it would be like that if one day, humanity would abruptly cease to exist? Where not a single human being was left on this planet and the world kept going on without us. The only objects that remain of our existence would be the relics that we have created the spaces on which they. Nature would begin to reclaim the spaces where we had once denied her growth, and covered her with concrete structures, then poisoned her land with our pollutants and pesticides in the name of progress… for humanity. All of these spaces and objects have lost their original purposes, like our electrical grid and our vacant homes, our empty streets, cracked from age. All of them no longer having any real importance, except to become the backbone of new growth for plants and artificial homes for the remaining wildlife on earth.
In this body of work, I am using B&W infrared photographs, to emphasize the beauty of the power of nature that has begun to consume and deteriorate these structures, and objects we have left behind. I have photographed in B&W to emphasize that color is only a perception and in fact only exists in our minds. Using infrared sensitive film allows the viewer to see the world in a very unique way, because it is not possible for the human eye to comprehend since infrared light has longer wavelengths than our “visible light” in the electromagnetic spectrum.
It is inevitable that one day we will become extinct on this planet and life on earth will most likely continue to exist without us. Here before you is perhaps a glimpse of what that may look like.
