ALIEN LAND
This project was born out of the extreme experience of loss, change and instability during the pandemic.
From a humanistic perspective, the pandemic implicated a list of essential themes as an unprecedented event that substantially changed our world.
The feeling of being left with more questions than answers, of losing one’s points of reference persists and is associated with the evolution of climate change and the insufficient efforts to tackle it.
What sort of world will we live in a few decades from now? Will we still be able to recognise it and call it home?
The resulting feelings led me to visualise an unfamiliar landscape, an alien yet fascinating and mysterious scenery that has evolved from what was once familiar.
Alien Land is part of Hunger, a series of photographic projects linked by the use of macro lenses to capture common foods.
Originating during the pandemic isolation, it grew out of my long-standing interest and fascination with food and its complex relationship with humans.
The title is inspired by recent studies of how our brains process visual input from sight.
It struck me that our minds can be so heavily influenced by our subconscious, rather than accurately processing what is around us.
Macro photography is a tool to explore what cannot be seen with the naked eye, such as the transformative and creative attitude of our brains.