Grim

Grim is an allegory, inspired by long walks through the Ahr Valley and rural West Germany. Told from the perspective of a spine, it unfolds like a fable.

Grim is an allegory, inspired by long walks through the Ahr Valley and rural West Germany. Told from the perspective of a spine, it unfolds like a fable: a lonely child lives in a cold, windswept house on a hill above a forest filled with strange, unreal beings whose ways do not abide by the logic of humans. The forest calls her softly at first, then ceaselessly, until isolation and longing drive her into its depths. There she meets a god who offers transcendence in exchange for her spine.

The child agrees, and the god plucks her spine and plants it in the earth. Where blood meets foliage, the world begins to take shape. The faces, creatures and landscapes that emerge are the dream her spine dreams as it takes root, stretching through lives and reincarnations. The series exists in that dream: a meditation on transformation and the blurred boundary between myth and memory.