The storyboard of what would have been an avian ready to glide on the winds. Ready to feel the breeze on it’s cheeks while hunting for forests in dimensions by humans untouched; the glistening reflections of windows cut this hunt short, shorter than it should have been. This morbid representation serves to illustrate the existential metaphor of those avians in parallel to humans, simply put, the click bait culture developed the last years ready to attract the eye of the consumer.

These photographs were shot in Sodingen, Herne; the area runs uphill and into a combination of urban, farmland, and forestry area. This particular avian was click baited to the window of my attic studio I was staying at the moment. The window was rather large and a tall tree was residing in front of it. On a daily basis, birds and bugs would end up on said window colliding. All of them but one made it through during my 4 month stay. This is the one.

I decided to photograph it and then attempted to depict parts of it that would imply a similar story as well as parts that would be considered abstract allowing another story to unfold; in my own hope of you being able to see these 2 stories, but if not, a discussion is more than enough to engage in the dialogue of these existential concepts entrapped.

Shot analogue, and printed analogue for “Slow down, Expose, Develop“, and digitally postprocessed for the website.