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Introduction
Death is part of nature, part of the other, part of the visible, part of the invisible. What we see as death, dead bodies, is part of life again, decay and decomposition being part of nature's cycle, part of nature's grasp and ability to renew its material basis - dead bodies, be they plant or animal, or something else, are quiet, peaceful, at the outside, stirred, however, inside, as nature's workings most probably have already set in. The other, the pre- or after-life, we cannot see, we can only assume, yet the now doesn't necessarily demand for stigmatization, it is part of life, death is part of life, death is life, life is death.
What I attempt to show in this category of Elements, under the premise of "fire", is the peacefulness of the dead body, the sublimity of its being at two places at once, the stark and somehow perhaps perverse contrast with the assumed peacefulness around, yet with that also the unity between what is perceived as being alive - or dead.
The series has been started in 1999, the pictures have been taken with a pretty ordinary camera, no fancy stuff.
June 3rd/14th, 2001
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PHOTO SERIES GROUP 1:
