The Silence of the Wasteland: An Archaeology of Control.

In the project “The Silence of the Wasteland,” I engage in a dialogue with space, exploring the fragile boundary between humanity and vastness, questioning the absoluteness of control. This is not a mere recording of landscape, but a visual philosophy that dissects the very concept of the border.

The wasteland, for me, is not a vacuum, but a primordial state, a pristine Chaos that precedes any division or naming. The boundless expanses, seemingly frozen in time, are a metaphor for this unity, drawing humanity towards structuring, towards the attempt to delineate “one’s own” upon the body of the infinite.

The fence, any man-made structure arising against this backdrop, is a symbol of the Boundary. It is a manifestation of the human aspiration for power, an attempt to order the unmanageable, to confine chaos within the framework of the comprehensible and controllable. It is like a scar on the body of the wasteland, simultaneously dividing and connecting “inside” and “outside,” “one’s own” and “the other.”

I emphasise the fragility of this Boundary, its illusory nature, using various visual techniques.

The “silence” of the wasteland is not an absence of sound, but a particular form of quietness, a dialectic of presence and absence. It is a harmony of muted tones, the breathing of the world, which is difficult to grasp in the bustle of everyday life.

The visual simplicity is not emptiness, but an abundance of meanings lying beyond the verbal, alluding to that which defies direct description.

My aim is not to state humanity’s defeat before the elements, but to critique the very idea of total control, of possessive appropriation. I propose a rethinking of our relationship with space, a rejection of dualistic thinking, a questioning of the necessity of the Boundary. The variety of visual solutions is not simply a set of techniques, but a polyphony asserting a single idea: borders are arbitrary.

I strive for a different, more organic understanding of the world, based not on division and opposition, but on profound interconnectedness and constant flux. I address the inexpressible through the language of the visual, that which is apprehended through negation, through the absence of form, through a hint of its inadequacy, through a sense of precariousness, permeability, and eternal transition.