Hirvas

In the philosophy of Timothy Morton, a "hyperobject" is a phenomenon so massively distributed across time and space that it defies human perception. The 3-billion-year-old paleovolcano of Girvas (Hirvas) in Karelia is such an entity. Over the course of two years, I returned to this location repeatedly. Standing next to an entity this old, our human sense of time simply becomes inadequate; the scale of our own existence shrinks to nothing. Through black-and-white imagery and deliberate visual distortion, I tried to express this dissonance. The figures in the frames lose their temporal anchor—they dissolve, appearing less as modern individuals and more as fragmented memories drawn directly from the ancient volcano's ash and charcoal.