SILENT SONG A century ago T.S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land. In an interview he stated about the Zeitgeist: ‘If the world is falling into pieces, we make art out of pieces’. The First World War had just ended and according to Eliot the world was falling apart. To me, there are many similarities between our time and Eliot’s Interbellum. In my Silent Song (published in April 2025) I try to reflect on the current situation. The world has fractured and while making the book I realised it would be best not to search for a specific theme but to embrace its complexities. 2020-2025 were years when war erupted in a number of places, coronavirus unraveled our lives, dark forces marched and the climate crisis became more tangible by the day. Europe seemed to be undergoing major shifts. Opposing forces clashed. History, present, reality, fiction, public and private space, the individual and the collective, Heimweh, Fernweh. I wasn’t looking for hard facts, but trying to find metaphors for our relation with our territory. My photographic journey evolved organically. The images led me down winding paths into contemporary Europe. And while observing I tried to give it meaning as history rushed forward at full speed.