176-195 BERNHARD EDMAIER / VOLCANOES

RUFUS KNIGHT / A POIGNANT THEME IN EARTH ON FIRE IS THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCE OF NATURE; NOT ONLY THE SLOW DECAY & ATTRITION OF THE EARTH BUT THE UNPREDICTABLE, ELEMENTAL, PHYSICALITY OF NATURE. WHAT IS YOUR FASCINATION WITH FRACTURES & DISTURBANCES OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE?

BERNHARD EDMAIER / IN OUR IMAGINATION THE EARTH, OR THE EARTH’S SURFACE, IS SOMETHING ETERNAL OR WITH VERY LITTLE CHANGES. BUT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. UNCOUNTABLE PROCESSES REMODEL THE SURFACE & INTERIOR OF THE EARTH. ONLY A FEW PROCESSES ARE DIRECTLY OBSERVABLE, MOST LAST HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS OR EVEN MILLIONS OF YEARS. DUE TO OUR LIMITED IDEA OF TIME, WE THINK IN HUMAN GENERATIONS; THOSE DIMENSIONS OF TIME ARE BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION. IN SHOWING FRACTURES, DISTURBANCES, ROCK FOLDS, EROSIONAL PATTERNS, I TRY TO VISUALISE THESE LONG- RUNNING PROCESSES. A WELCOME SIDE EFFECT FOR ME AS A PHOTOGRAPHER IS THEIR, IN MANY CASES, VERY AESTHETIC APPEARANCE.

MONIKA BIELSKYTE / ULTIMATELY, IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CREATION & DESTRUCTION FOR YOU?

BE / CREATION & DESTRUCTION ARE CLOSELY INTERCONNECTED. FOR INSTANCE, FIERCE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS CAUSE DISASTER & DEVASTATION, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND NEW LAND WILL BE CREATED, FERTILE SOIL FOR FUTURE AGRICULTURE IS DEPOSITED. BY THE WAY, MAY FAVOURITE IMAGES SHOW STRUCTURES, PATTERNS, & COLOURS CREATED BY EROSION, DESTRUCTION, DECAY…


EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH BERNHARD EDMAIER. ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER004 / THE WINGS OF A LOCUST






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