GERM

AR photography series, December-March 2022

Germ means a microorganism, a bacterium, but in this project, it’s a person himself.

A human used to be the apotheosis of biological development, but in fact, he is a small part of the physical world. The visual space of the project is like a Petri dish: the character is placed in a fertile world along with other bacteria, and together they expand like mould. Microorganisms dominate him, and he gradually weakens in front of them.

The project is a metaphor for the inversion of the ecological pyramid. Our future is unclear and dystopian. The ecological crisis will reach its peak. Humankind will become helpless in front of the greater population - microorganisms. The project is a metaphor for the inversion of the ecological pyramid. We used to fight against the mold but here it dominates the man.