Frostsprängning (Frost weathering)
2024- ongoing
The cracks in rocks near the sea open up when someone has drowned at sea. A light then comes out of the crack and the dead enters the rock, attracted by it. After the body has entered, it closes again.
Frostsprängning is a photographic project that explores placemaking by examining how geological events and local myths shape our understanding of a landscape. Drawing inspiration from an ancient Gaelic legend that addresses the transition from life to death, Frostsprängning is set on a rocky shore. It delves into a deep posthuman time, reflecting how seemingly eternal geological formations can be dynamic entities, rethinking the durability of “place” whilst mourning the loss of a loved one.The project considers the rocks as a “living record of disappeared landscapes”. In this sense, rocks provide tangible and material records that have documented much of the planetary changes that humans have not been able to witness or experience. These abilities of visualization are inherent in the geology of the landscape, but also that of a photograph.
I search for the cracks, attending this funeral that’s organized by the landscape. One of a physical transformation, of a toponymy that is supposed to never change, to stay put.