The quantum field theory suggests that our universe might exist in a metastable state of a ‘false’ vacuum. It might eventually move to a more stable state in a catastrophic phase transition. Any information about this event would reach us only at the instant when we, too, were destroyed. The artist approaches the current doomsday premonitions and theories of the world’s metastability in barren landscapes where he anticipates the nucleation of a bubble with true vacuum values. In the Sahara he investigates abandoned Berber cities and Paleozoic era sea fossils to determine on which side of the threshold we are actually standing. Are these ruins and petrifactions decaying evidence of a past extinction or the first seeds of a new universe? In this quest, the image itself starts to decay and disintegrate. Technical facts: the series consists of a number of black & white film negatives, some of which were subjected to the elements of nature found on the location, then scanned and printed in color; some were printed in their original form (pigment print on Hahnemuehle paper). Currently the final number of works is floating, but the general rule is that each large color print (e.g. 90x60cm) is accompanied with 4 smaller black & white images. This is a work in the making. The artist currently develops an experimental film based on the ancient Babylonian flood account, which is to be shot at these locations. The film investigates the concept of the ‘Great Flood’ and ‘the Ark’ in its mythological, climatic, psychical and finally cosmological connotations, observes the fragility of human condition in the face of environmental and mental risks.