ANDREA BOSCARDIN
ANDREA BOSCARDIN
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OF HUNTING AND NATURE | 2014~ In progress
"For a long time I observed and, maybe, I’ve been observed to.
The one who is hunting is hunted too, and the one who observes is observed at the same time.”
(– Ernest Junger)
“Of Hunting and Nature” is a documentary project about nature, wildlife and hunting within the twelve months of the year and the four seasons.
The project started by in 2014 and still in progress involves not only photograhpy and video (trail cameras) but aso: objects (finds), sculptures, watercolors, texts, maps, illustrations, drawings, and taxidermy.
“I tried to do this with the approach of a documentary photographer but also with basic knowledge of hunting, vernacular literature, neutralistic science, taxidermy, zoology and ethology”.
This project is also the “hundred-kilometer journey” done over weeks of walking. Hikes were done along well marked paths (but sometimes also through certainly unknown paths) and after accurately reported in maps. Paths located in the Appennino Mountains, in Liguria and Tuscany: wild but friendly lands.
"This is also a journey made of long waits and sudden meetings, long silences and unexpected discoveries, of wide spaces and little moments.
After such long walk I realized that Hunting and Nature are (as probably life and death are) strictly connected between themselves.
Hunt is life and death and Nature is life and death.
This journey is about Hunting and Nature and also, may be, about life and death."