The Memory of Nature

Our project explores the disappearance of childhood memories of nature due to climate change. Inspired by Shifting Baseline Syndrome and Selective Forgetting, we visualize how different generations perceive the same environment through layers of memory, texture, and loss.

To visualize this fading memory, we use printmaking techniques – lithography and copperplate etching-to create fragmented images of nature, representing landscapes that are slowly disappearing. We experiment with printing on different fabrics to explore how textures and transparencies affect the perception of memory. After selecting the most effective materials, we digitally enhance the images and transfer them onto larger fabrics using UV printing.

We construct a multi-layered hanging installation that invites viewers to walk through fragmented memories of trees, rivers, grass and sky-elements of nature that have gradually disappeared or transformed over time.

This is not only a work of art that we created, but also a picture scene that we want to remind viewers who have the same memories as us to pay attention to protecting the environment, so that the climate will not be changed by people’s broken rings, and that we can slowly recover our beautiful memories of the past through the self-healing power of nature.