Tales from a Meadow

The Meadow A meadow is an organism connected to the whole world: One hectare of grassland binds on average 181 tons of CO2 a year compared to 95 tons per hectare for cultivated land. Grassland can produce 7000 kg and cultivated land on average 300 kg oxygen per year. Slowly, through the painful experience of climate change, we start to realize that we have to stop seeing us as something separate from the natural cycles and start caring about such places like a simple meadow, the tree in our backyard, the patch of green in front of our house. When in Summer 2021 I went roaming through my surroundings realizing how much our landscape was subject to intensive agriculture and how it had become a monocultural desert with almost no animals, a wonderful thing happened: I discovered a meadow left to himself. Threading into the meadow felt like entering a sheltered place, the grass blades were weaving a motherly universe, and when the grass blades run before the wind the meadow became a whole, like a symphony. As the gras ripened, with a gust of wind, a cloud of pollen would arise. Sitting in the meadow was an almost mystical experience, I felt like floating in a universe made up of thousands of organisms, just like our body. Inside became outside. I kept visiting the meadow until the grass was ripe and seeds were everywhere. I took hundreds of pictures until the weather compelled me to go in my atelier. This series tries to tell about my experience in the meadow.