Shifting

Through cameraless analog photography, I reveal landscapes in transformation, where melting ice and shifting vegetation trace memory, perception, and nature’s constant change.

Growing up in the Carpathian Mountains, near a peatland  where, in winter, ice met warm springs and unusually delicate vegetation emerged, I spend long hours observing transformation. As the ice melted, water surfaced, and plants  disappeared and reappeared along with the shifting ground. These moments left a lasting impression on how I understand nature - not as a static phenomenon, but as a fragile system in constant change.

In my works I use the light of different wavelengths and analog color photographic paper to reinterpret natural structures, transforming them into uncertain, continuously evolving forms.

The landscape and vegetation exist at the threshold between recognizable form and abstraction, reflecting the passage of time and the slow, often invisible transformations of natural processes.

The motif of melting ice  appears as a transitional state, symbolizing dissolution and opening of new perspectives. Within the context of the Anthropocene, I examine how personal memory, perception, and human-altered natural system intersect, and how the boundaries between what is real, remembered, and imagined begin to blur and transform.