‘The Ghost Of Immortal Beauty’
An Ecological Inquiry
Prologue
It is buried in the soil deep in the dark where the truth lies, quietly observing us. A forest of Silent Witnesses that root themselves in nature; a nature defined by the rhythm of the seasons. Somewhere, we stumble upon a web of myths and secrets, an enchanted territory divided by two poles— beauty and fear. Fairy-tales grown from the ground, and beside them, traces of quotidian life in the display of natural phenomena.
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All photos by Anna Skladmann during her residency at Villa Lena in 2018.