Artist Anonymous, From the series Live, fake live, 2016

digital print, paper, 68.5 x 94 cm

A photographer chooses what he is dealing with each time he displays, develops, produces an image. Inscribing it into a certain system of artistic gaze - style, genre, cultural code and optics, determining the trajectory of the viewer's attention and reading. The context of the artist's project manifests itself in two modes: "desolate, primitive, wild, rebellious" - the landscape for itself (according to Jan Bulgak) and man as an object, a model, gradually assigning and subjugating the surrounding landscape, turning it into a background. Here, the landscape now appears in the form of a dense web of trees, branches bending over the water, now swampy, reed-covered banks or dark green, dense, clumped leaves. A person's gaze captures perfection and beauty, enjoying the beautiful view and uniqueness of the moment without trying to capture it. The artist's gaze captures the natural landscape as a space for its own maneuver, turning it into a decoration waiting for an event - a subject/model in the frame. The man acquires an energy that transforms the world around him - "I place this compelling nature in another compelling nature," says the author. Here it is as if there is a rupture, a rethinking of connections - "another essence appears in this human nature." It is not man who identifies with nature, but on the contrary, the landscape is determined by the presence of the subject. It turns out that it is the sign itself, the symbol that fills and signifies the "void" that surrounds it. "... and when the person leaves the frame, you feel this emptiness... there is such a sense of loss...".