The Descent

This is a journey from the heroic to the ordinary. More and more often we leave our everyday lives to get immersed in nature, getting subtracted from our reality. It has become a common practice of modern society. We could argue that it is our need to reconnect with nature since we live in big cities that do not allow us to be in direct contact with the natural world. Nevertheless, even though I think that is true, it also has a deeper and darker side to it. Why is it that we need to escape? What is so unbearable of our lives? Wouldn’t it be easier to find a way to be happy where and how we currently are instead of escaping? This series raises these questions for the viewer through a descending journey to our inside landscapes. Far from being a heroic portrait of our relation with the natural environment it is instead about the harshness we go through just to find ourselves somehow.