geht eh alles irgendwann kaputt (2024)This series of works uses industrial and organic elements arranged in ways that represents the archaic attempts by humans to overcome nature and the inherent decay of human created systems.

The central theme of this series examines the cyclical nature of human existence and the constructs we create to impose order on an inherently uncontrollable world.

Through landscapes, decaying structures, and utilitarian artifacts such as power lines, grids, and rods, I aim to explore how human efforts to build permanence - rooted in notions of progress and innovation - inevitably lead to obsolescence, decay, and renewal.

I wanted to question how constructs mimic nature, not as an act of innovation, but as an acknowledgement of the very systems we are inherently a part of. To critique the illusion of separation between human and nature. Emphasizing our role within a world that perpetually rises, falls, and reshapes itself.

These cycles reveal the tension between our aspirations for control and the inescapable reality of our impermanence.

For me, there’s a humorous undercurrent to this meaninglessness. Acknowledgment of the absurdity in our dramatic attempts to assign meaning to systems that will ultimately outlast and overwrite us.

The cyclical nature described in the work’s themes is intentionally embedded within its creation process. Rather than beginning with a blank canvas, the works draw from documentary photography, using collage elements, gel transfers, and scans of negatives layered with digital compositions. This deliberate integration of past and present mediums aims to mirror cycles of creation and decay which the works conceptually explore. The transformation of digital photographs into analogue materials and their subsequent dissection and recombination is inspired by the human tendency to recontextualize and repurpose the existing into “new” forms - which themselves are destined to decay and be replaced. I wanted to merge several layers of moments that have passed to arrive at one new final moment that is aware of its own decay within time.

Ultimately, this is not a human world; it is nature’s domain - a reality we cannot control, transcend, or escape, even into digital spaces or artificial constructs.
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