This project evolves around interconnected multimedia works: video- and audio fragments and conceptual (analogue) photography of intimate happenings (documented by my partner). These black/white photographs of happenings are made during my 3rd pregnancy and mark the start of this long term project.
Over years I’ll continue connecting ecology and motherhood to build upon the concept of a symbiosis between motherhood and a psychological relation with nature, as described by Albrecht’s Symbiocene, which I explore from the inside out – digging in the earth, myths, my (female) family history and an expanding consciousness or inner space.
It’s possible that I’ll start an Art Residency in Motherhood to add new dimensions to this project.
“As the symbiotic interconnections come back into the soil, the ecosystem, and the macrobiomes, the neural and emotional connections return to the psyche to a form of health. . … The fact that, for the bulk of our time on this Earth, humans have not had to analyze or even be conscious of our positive relationships to the Earth accounts to some extent for our not naming or recording them in the languages that have coalesced to become the English language. They were taken for granted when the world gave generously and continuously of these connections.
As the Anthropocene has peeled away the protective layers that held our positive Earth emotions in place, we have come to appreciate and value their role in our psychic health..”
– Eco philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht (Earth Emotions, page 194-195)
Note (see photographs made in Ellecom):
At the former nazi gymnastics hall, Jewish forced labourers have died and been dumped in the soil during WW2. My happening took place while the last eye witnesses, the trees, had just been cut. Their roots have been living in connection with body parts, bones, remains and energies for 80 years. I started a dialogue with this landscape to listen or let go of old stories and pain, before a new generation comes into place. My 3rd pregnancy was the right time to take a closer look at this collective landscape.