Info Work:
A rich plant community populates our European river banks. Botanists have counted that around 70% of the species on the river Salzach are native/indigenous, the remaining 30% are immigrants, so-called neophytes.
Some of these neophytes were deliberately introduced by humans (as ornamental or useful plants) and have become wild, others have had to find new habitats due to new, man-made living conditions (climate change, over-fertilization, ...) and after a while they are no longer recognizable as "foreigners".
People also migrate for a variety of reasons, ultimately always man-made. Whether intentionally (skilled workers) or unintentionally (war-, poverty- and climate refugees) - people look for living conditions that make survival possible.
Using around 35 images, the plant community of the Central European river banks is shown. depicted in all their beauty, diversity and variability.
Description:
Frame 4 x 4 m, hung at a height of approx. 3 m
7 rows with 5 pictures each (each approx. 80 x 200 cm on cotton gauze), lined up on wire.
Photo technique: cyanotype (blueprint).
