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reflections · August 12, 2026 · en

Industry

No street art, no documentary photography. Definitely drawn to the beauty of the morbid, the dark, the finite. In its clarity of the technical, though, often the unclarity of the organic is mixed in.

Structures that bear, that no longer held; tools; machines that seem like beings; human and machine — deus ex machina…

Practical sense and purpose in the structure — the opposite of artistic innocence, and yet it has grown a beauty and an aesthetic all its own. Processes, org charts, documentations, diagrams, tables that still carry an organic quality, an inherent, unintended flow.

And so often, simply the absurd visibility of the influence and the consequences that human, market-driven, artificial needs have on the decisions and the lives of other people…

A worker inspecting a metal mould in the dark
Sparks flying at a forge
A worker at a grinding wheel under a round factory window
A dark machine on the shop floor
Rows of numbered factory lockers
A long, dim factory hall
A wrench resting on a press mould
A heavy bolt and wrench on an oily surface
Rows of tools hanging on a rack
A hand holding a patterned plate beside the stacks
A worker sorting blue carabiners at a bench
A machine wrapped in wiring and hoses
A man gesturing in a warehouse
A furnace burning behind a control panel
Carabiners in a blue treatment tank
Molten metal being poured, glowing orange
A forestry worker in orange among the trees
Empty warehouse shelving in low light
A red cord curled on a concrete floor
Rows of coloured oil drums against the windows
A green machine hook on a production line