There is something amazing about capturing that perfect picture that allows you to say everything you wanted to and more without ever uttering a syllable. Sometimes it can speak volumes with silence and tell you stuff that you otherwise fail to perceive in sheer words. Of course it is not an art that many are good at and it takes both skill and imagination to get the right picture. Ask the experts and they will tell you that you need a bit of luck too to be in the right place at the right time. Finnish photographer Ilkka Halso’s photographic series ‘The Museum of Nature’ is modern technology producing seductively beautiful pictures of a future that is full of green magic.
This collection of images captures a series of man-made structures that enclose nature, protecting it like a relic of the past. Using images of landscapes and 3D digital manipulation, this photographic collection captures a future vision of nature as a rare display. Challenging the audience’s interaction with the natural environment as endangered artefact, Halso manages to truly visualize a future we so desperately do not want to see become a reality. But then I just feel so delighted about it as it could very well be a future full of green plains spreading to man-made structures.
I suppose there are two ways of looking at this and I would say it is better to look at it in a positive way. Rather than the structures protecting the greenery, maybe it is just the greenery spreading in to our artificial structures! Well, that might be improbable, but surely not impossible. Halso’s work is a thoroughly engaging project that takes us into a future world where nature is a museum-like place and experience is controlled, but we are more optimistic than that. Just for the sheer magic of the photographs though, this is a ‘must see’.
