The Cost Of A Footprint
The images to the left capture a quiet moment in time, where the land exists in balance and calm, untouched by human impact. The open fields, soft light, and absence of movement create a sense of peace that feels natural and fragile. Together, they suggest a world before environmental damage—a reminder of how serene and resilient nature can be when it is left undisturbed, and how easily this harmony could be lost.
This manually manipulated, burnt image disrupts the calm landscape by introducing damage and destruction directly into the frame. The torn, charred edges and visible flames suggest fire as both a physical force and a symbol of deforestation, cutting through the natural scene and erasing parts of it. The contrast between the remaining grassland and the burned void emphasizes loss, showing how human actions can fragment and consume environments that were once whole and peaceful.
This series of chemically manipulated images uses texture, staining, and discoloration to mirror the effects of pollution on the environment. The corroded surfaces, murky tones, and chemical blotches resemble contamination, decay, and long-term exposure to toxins, transforming familiar urban structures into symbols of environmental neglect. By overlaying industrial architecture with marks that suggest chemical damage, the images blur the boundary between built and polluted environments, emphasizing how pollution seeps into landscapes over time and permanently alters them.
These landscapes have been chemically manipulated so that synthetic stains and spectral distortion bleed into the fields and tress echoing the visual language of toxic spills and environmental contamination. what once read as quite, pastoral nature becomes scarred - overwritten by traces of human interference that suggest pollution, habitat destruction, and the slow erasure of wildlife. This manipulation is permanent, embedded into the material of the image itself, mirroring the irreversible consequences of human actions on the natural world, where damage cannot simply be undone or washed away.
