Transformation

The Breaking Time and the Aesthetics of Second Life

Photograph of the Threshold: The Death of Function, the Birth of Meaning

This series focuses on the most critical moment in the life of objects: the Breaking Time.

This is the irreversible step an object takes after losing its initial functionality and embarking on a necessary transformation. Each frame documents a moment of separation or a change in status.

Every object that society rapidly consumes and discards takes on a new identity after the Breaking Time. These remnants, no longer "useful," become passive symbols of resistance.

The photographs demonstrate the power of this transformation on both a personal and societal scale.

The life nestled in the metal bodies of abandoned cars proves that nature always returns and fills the void, while the statue, dismantled and discarded, screams out the illusion of permanence and the inability of even monuments to withstand time.

Or this parachute, once used in the Bosnian War to carry lives or drop ammunition from the sky, has now become a sun-shielding tent for an open-air cinema. The instrument of war has now become a shield for culture and peaceful entertainment.

These photographs reveal not the object's "no longer existing" function, but its "new and necessary" meaning. They are photographs of rebirth, beyond use and disposal.

The Breaking Time of these objects resonates with our own moments of exhaustion, abandonment, and beginning anew.

The photographs are not merely piles of scrap or garbage; they are a tribute that celebrates a resilient rebirth and the unwavering power of cyclical life. They are not an end, but the beginning of a new existence.