The Artificial Landscape

These photographs, taken in the Alps in southern Germany, explore how human-made structures merge with the natural landscape, gradually erasing the line between the artificial and the organic. Nature and infrastructure speak to each other here: a metal t

These photographs, taken in the Alps in southern Germany, explore the idea of the artificial landscape — how human constructions become part of the natural scene, gradually dissolving the boundary between the made and the organic.

Here, nature and infrastructure enter into dialogue: a metal tunnel appears like a temporary growth on the body of the earth, a cable car floats above an alpine meadow like an artifact from a past future. These structures were created for comfort and speed, yet over time they have turned into poetic traces of human presence — a reminder of our attempts to control the landscape while also seeking harmony within it.

The series speaks of stillness after motion, of simple forms that preserve a human presence even without people. It balances between document and metaphor, inviting the viewer to see something alive in the artificial, and the imprint of civilization in nature.

The Artificial Landscape by Sofia Tatarinova

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