Be kind to me
Central to the work Be kind to me, is the global warming and the destruction of nature. Colour positive film have been used to capture vegetation in forests. The photograph have then been heated to manipulate, reform and to destroy the original appearance. The destruction of the image becomes a metaphor for the destruction of our living environment.
The demolition and metamorphosis of the colour positive film is also largely left to randomness. Just as it’s hard for us to know the outcome of today’s global warming, it’s nearly impossible to decide the result of the heating of the image.
By destroying an original photograph the possibility of ever going back to the origin is ruined, and it’s almost impossible to create an exact copy of the original or the new object. Each part is unique. The destruction of maybe a photographers most valuable object plays as a metaphor for the same way as destruction of nature has devastating consequences, where the possibility of recovering the loss of a habitat or a species could be impossible.
The work is presented in two was: in a slide projector and on a light box inside a Petri dish which the viewer can observe through a magnifying glass.
