‘The Ghost Of Immortal Beauty’
An Ecological Inquiry
Prologue
It is buried in the soil deep in the dark where the truth lies, quietly observing us. A forest of Silent Witnesses that root themselves in nature; a nature defined by the rhythm of the seasons. Somewhere, we stumble upon a web of myths and secrets, an enchanted territory divided by two poles— beauty and fear. Fairy-tales grown from the ground, and beside them, traces of quotidian life in the display of natural phenomena.
All photos by Anna Skladmann during her residency at Villa Lena in 2018.