Ancestral Land 1

Land goes through tremendous changes. Urbanization is historically inevitable. Humans interfere when nature integrate and disintegrate.
Rulers pass through, dynasties apparate and dissipate while conflict and harmony play the game of 'hide and seek' throughout history. After years of wars and cultural transformations, the architectural skin of the land has been layered with numerous stories. Fossils conjure the living presence of the ancient. Incessant time transforms dead trees into coal and sometimes even into diamonds. Similarly memories recalled transport us into the world of myths and legends. We are the part of an ongoing ‘shadow play’ of erasure and excavation of these memories. Life as we feel it arises and passes away. But the spirit of a place remains as the silent witness.