We fooled ourselves!
Nature has always welcomed us unconditionally, offering its resources without asking for anything in return. Yet, instead of gratitude, humans have responded with carelessness: littering public spaces, polluting air and water, and producing materials like plastic – designed for convenience but abandoned without thought, destined to outlast us with their long decomposition time. What began as negligence has accumulated into an environmental crisis that shapes not only remote, invisible places but also the very heart of our cities.
Human Traces is my visual investigation into this condition. Walking through London, I encounter the residues of our presence, waste, debris, forgotten objects – unintentional monuments of a collective indifference. Each discarded item becomes a marker of time, evidence of a silent yet persistent act of erasure. Through overlapping frames, I introduce the fourth dimension – time – drawing inspiration from Analytical Cubism to collapse multiple perspectives and moments into a single image. These layered compositions reflect the accumulation of human traces and the irreversible transformation of the environments we inhabit. What began as a walk through familiar streets unfolds into a documentation of a global reality: a world where ordinary gestures, repeated endlessly, reshape the future of the places we call home.
