Soil is for me where everything comes from. A simple metaphor. An al- most stupid metaphor. Dust have you been, and dust you shall become. Every picture I have taken has been a study of what is to come. But I’m afraid of being sentimental and making portraits is to become senti- mental. This is a photographers ultimate motivator: conservation. The preservation of that which escapes us. In objects we can find it as a metaphor, as a physical representation and as something to study.