Dances with trees

I was actually trying to find good poses for photographs/filmstills, but as I watched the movie back at home, I thought my movements were like a dance/rythm I was performing with the tree. By reversing it I put more focus on the movements, and the grayscale creates more of a whole in the colourpalet. It's also a form of abstracting and directing it, to create more indirect communication and to make the narrative more visual.

I like the fact that I'm trying to find a way to be with the tree, but that it doesn't really go natural. The unnatural way my hair moves, and the fact that I try to get rid of the dirt on my legs and hands, while at the same time I'm trying to be one with this natural material, all ads up to the irony of the image. You could interpretate the video as my reflection on romantic philosophies of Schiller, Hegel and Nietzsche about humanity and nature; they all try to deal with the fact that we humans were once part of nature, but aren't part of it anymore.
It's this awareness of the division that makes us human, and the fact that we keep trying to be part of it is also human. The fact that we can't reach this point of wholeness anymore and the fact that we know this, but that we keep trying, has some irony in it, or maybe it is melancholy. Anyhow, this human behaviour and these reflections on that behaviour fascinate me. You could say that, with this work, I tried to create a work that's reflecting on it's own content.