It is an urgent companion for our times

in the deepest sense

Ernst Jünger

Eine solche Problematik der Gegenwart kann nicht in Fragen von Be- oder Entschleunigung gefasst werden

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Hiske Altena – Vital Mud La Llorona It is an urgent companionWith the photographic project Vital Mud, Hiske Altena (NL) explores the theory that life on Earth once began in clay. In the 1980s, her uncle, a now retired geologist, found an unusual rattle stone. In this stone, he discovered organic looking structures that he could not explain with existing geological theories. However, the alternative so called clay hypothesis, according to which clay helped the evolution of early life forms, seems to offer a