(Being a Photograph)

mosses bonding metallurgical rind, bee-wolves mining slag

Skeletal Images of a Vegetal Body: On Nuclear afterlife

the loss of vision was greater than night, the sand took our memories, erased everything we had known to be true.

in conversation with Red forest ant, Notch ant, Stalk ant

below the waving surfaces of the ocean, an archive of plastics, conserved by the absence of sunlight, is found

intimately linked to our historical trail, they archive, they forest vegetation, they oaks

library for radioactive afterlife (plant cycle)

library for radioactive afterlife (rhizome cycle)

library for radioactive afterlife (homage to a miner)

library for radioactive afterlife (uraninite cycle)

how do we see and participate in a landscape with a camera that doubles as part of the emergence of the photographic outside itself

light machine, light night

1 Raphael painting = 1⁄2 Magnitogorsk 40

no tomorrow can darkly announce its approach

scan, retouch, rework, solarise, boil, dry, water and reprint

crumbling dried flowers are just plain floral pulp, like the paper of a photographic print

a white camel loaded with oats is coming over the pass

imagination of an unrecoverable past

November 1941, December 2008

(former central post office Rotterdam)

immutable remains

the present slips from the edges