Dust (2025)
In the abandoned interiors of Jussarö former mining community, the sun’s last light casts the reflections of surrounding trees onto damp, peeling walls. These empty rooms resemble a primitive camera – light filtering through broken windows turns them into dark chambers, where shifting shadows and silhouettes appear like images inside a camera obscura. The spaces themselves become photographs: temporary imprints of the forest projected onto crumbling surfaces, reflecting quiet resilience of the forest on human-altered landscape.
Once a base for seafarers and fishermen, the Jussarö island became a center of iron ore mining from the 18th century until the closure of operations in 1967. The remnants of that era – rusting machinery, derelict buildings, and contaminated soil – continue to shape the island’s atmosphere. Amid these ruins, the old-growth forest pushes forward: roots split through concrete, moss envelops metal, and branches reach through shattered windows.
Dust reflects not only human presence, destruction, and decay, but also cyclical renewal – the quiet return of more-than-human life, and the entanglement of past and future in the textures of dust, rust, and shadow.
