A photographic reconstruction of war ruins
A reconstruction attempt — the mirroring process shifts the scenery into a new dimension. The basic Rorschach principle of psychology reveals human-made, temple-like structures — a horror architecture built from the aftermath of a war, and faces that seem to stare back from another dimension
In May 2025, I returned to the ruins of my hometown to photograph what was left of it— the remains of houses, schools, and streets that had turned into silent masses of broken concrete and dust. I walked through these landscapes collecting fragments.
The Apollonian Act
Reshaping disorder into something bearable through form and beauty, the Apollonian act, as described by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), is a response to chaos rather than an escape from it. It stands as a counterforce to the raw, destructive energy of life, offering vision where there is blindness and order where there is collapse. This transformation gives rise to illusion — not as deception, but as a vital necessity. Illusion, for Nietzsche, becomes a means of survival: the creation of images, structures, and meanings that allow us to endure the unbearable. Through the Apollonian act, chaos is not erased but reorganized into beauty — a fragile, temporary balance that justifies existence as something still worth witnessing.
