Information about the project “After the Cut” (2023 - 2024)

This project emerges from a long-standing engagement with forests as living, vulnerable spaces.

Rather than documenting specific acts of destruction, the work focuses on what remains: altered structures, exposed surfaces, and the fragile persistence of what continues to grow.

Alongside the marks of cutting and management, the images register a second pressure—heat, drought, and shifting seasons—subtle forces that change the forest from within. The work approaches the landscape not as a backdrop or resource, but as a living system marked by imbalance. Signs of order and control coexist with vulnerability, resistance, and loss. What is absent becomes as present as what is still standing.

Rooted in close observation, the project holds an underlying tension between care and harm, proximity and distance. The cut is both a physical act and a condition—a line that separates, interrupts, and leaves lasting consequences.

The work does not seek resolution, it lingers in the space after intervention, where regeneration and disappearance remain uncertain, and where the landscape bears quiet witness to human presence.

Note:

Looking back, the project also reflects a personal confrontation with mortality. The series was developed in the year following the death of my grandfather, and questions of disappearance, continuity, and care inevitably entered the work.