b/w analogue photo-series, experimental plant based processing
Glacier Archipelago – Views on a melting landscape is a visual-material research on the parks and ponds of the Berlin district Tempelhof. As descendants of the glaciers that once covered the central European lands, they form a green corridor within the urban landscape: during the glacial regression more than 10.000 years ago, they left huge chunks of ice which, through time and very slowly, shaped the kettle holes of Tempelhof. The projects marks the starting point of an investigation on how to relate to a long-disapeared landscape which kept its presence within the grounds and waters of today’s urbanity.
Glacier Archipelago uses natural materials found in the parks, such as mushroom, tree bark, leaves or berries to process b/w-analogue film. In this practice of developing the landscape with the landscape, two kind of memories can emerge: a visual one, taken from a situated point of view in the here and now and a material one of the various plants which were nurtured through time and witnessed its duration.
The series was published at [anthro]metronom blog:
https://www.anthrometronom.com/poem-for-a-vanished-glacier
vanessa clara engelmann 