The Hens no Longer Lay

The Hens no longer lay explores suspended landscapes where traces, absence and temporality intertwine. Through fragmented and vulnerable environments, the project questions what remains of territories where natural and artificial merge.

The Hens no longer lay deals with a world in suspension, in a quest for traces and time which seem to escape us. I try to document those elusive moments, where my images cross territories marked by timelessness and attempt to capture emptiness. Through artificial landscapes, bodies are deformed, structures become skeletons, and our perception of reality is shaped by fragments and interstices, giving rise to an environment that seems under tension and vulnerable.

What does the landscape tell us?

I question presence and disappearance, and wonder what stories will emanate from our images, and what will be the whiz that will cry from our silent landscapes, in the futur and through our past . 

How will those frozen places, where natural and artificial merge, intermingle and fade, act on the perception of our surrounding environments. What will remain of these territories where time already seems to have stopped?

I place my research work at the intersection of a lost time, an ephemeral territory, and our spaces ready to disappear. Are we before, during or after the storm? The wind from these smoke-filled forests sweeps across the landforms of water, rock, and earth, freezing them in a present moment. This writing offers stories of these winds blowing over silent landscapes, in search of emergence.