when the old river turns, we hide, we seek
In the hills along the Altriver banks, traces of Neolithic settlements have been found and researched since the 19th century.
They have often been spoken about by nearby villagers, with stories created and passed down ever since.
The man-made mounds of earth characteristic of these sites became shrouded in myth, as children planned their own excavations on-site,
conjuring a fantastic history of their own. Prehistoric fragments merge into a space and time where the fictional and the historical intertwine.
In this work, I reflect on how findings are selected, appropriated, and relocated as human attempts to decode the past.
I contextualize archaeological objects and sketches through one’s own biased recollections and create a new relationship between artifact and landscape.
I shed light on the currently impossible elimination of bias in archaeological classification, collection, and analysis, where arbitrary decisions must inevitably be made.
Although various measures are applied to control systematic errors, bias remains a persistent concern for practitioners in this field.
My process mirrors that of an archaeologist: I sample and transform the current landscape by searching through its memories and constructing an imagined archaeological report. Fictionally reconstructing the past and assigning the real a fantasized narrative, I situate myself where (and when) the Altriver turns, to hide and seek.
In the hills along the Altriver banks, traces of Neolithic settlements have been found and researched since the 19th century.
They have often been spoken about by nearby villagers, with stories created and passed down ever since.
The man-made mounds of earth characteristic of these sites became shrouded in myth, as children planned their own excavations on-site,
conjuring a fantastic history of their own. Prehistoric fragments merge into a space and time where the fictional and the historical intertwine.
In this work, I reflect on how findings are selected, appropriated, and relocated as human attempts to decode the past.
I contextualize archaeological objects and sketches through one’s own biased recollections and create a new relationship between artifact and landscape.
I shed light on the currently impossible elimination of bias in archaeological classification, collection, and analysis, where arbitrary decisions must inevitably be made.
Although various measures are applied to control systematic errors, bias remains a persistent concern for practitioners in this field.
My process mirrors that of an archaeologist: I sample and transform the current landscape by searching through its memories and constructing an imagined archaeological report. Fictionally reconstructing the past and assigning the real a fantasized narrative, I situate myself where (and when) the Altriver turns, to hide and seek.