new video: hortus

https://vimeo.com/525062062

hortus, De/ USA 2021, 6 min. Music: Timothy Shearer

This experimental photofilm is on agriculture and how we treat our environmental nature. In 2014 I started to photograph the patches of my medical herbs throughout the whole year, I was interested in how the plants changes their shapes and colours. Further I reduced the photos in the pure color means, let them move in a classic spectrometer analysis grid. The second part starts with the plan of the garden of St. Gallen and goes on with the idea of ​​what it might look like if, after the destruction of the environment, a scientific study were made of the last evidence of a garden. hortus means it is a demarcated garden that is ideally planted and cared for. It is a piece of cultivated nature and should represent the regulated and best possible form of the entire flora. An artificial act of imagining the garden of Eden at a given time.