Fading Fauna
How do we remember? How does nature hold memories of what it has lost? As the leaves hold the likeness of these animals and slowly lose them, the work creates a profound connection to the urgent reality that we are on the brink of losing entire species—silent witnesses to a changing planet.
Fading Fauna intertwines themes of memory, extinction, and nature's own way of remembering, asking viewers to consider: How do we remember? How does nature hold memories of what it has lost? As the leaves hold the likeness of these animals and slowly lose them, the work creates a profound connection to the urgent reality that we are on the brink of losing entire species—silent witnesses to a changing planet.
Using an innovative, sustainable photographic process, I created delicate images of these endangered animals by exposing photographs directly onto tree leaves with the Sun's UV light. These ephemeral images, imprinted on leaves, are preserved for approximately ten years before they gradually fade away, much like the creatures they depict. The fading of the images serves as a haunting metaphor for the disappearance of these species, reminding us of the impermanence of both memory and life.
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