Hiske Altena – Vital Mud Biogarten das die Elemente des Lebens

das die Elemente des Lebens isoliert

JOANNA WALSH

and a new relationship with landscape

Machen and the occult

individually

Hiske Altena – Vital Mud Biogarten das die Elemente des LebensWith 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