Yard and Life

Amid the colorlessness of hues, a plant has grown, enveloping the abandoned house, covering its volume, and creeping out from the door’s arch. One can imagine that if time in the image were to move forward, the plant would cross the threshold, get close, and spread until the darkness of its leaves covers the photographer’s camera.

War has driven the house’s inhabitants away, but nature, as always, has returned and begun its conquest. Abandoned cities, collapsed temples, and roads buried beneath layers of soil and plants all testify that the boundaries between nature and human-made structures are not enduring.

This is an image of a conquest unrecorded in the history of wars. Here, there is neither plundering nor deliberate destruction; only patience and silence in the gradual reclamation of a place abandoned by humans.