Descendingascending is an ongoing series of short films that combine time-lapse footage of wilting and growing plants with sound to create cinematic collages. They encourage a reflection on nature, beauty and waste as well as on transience, growth and resurrection. 

The film material consists of high-resolution single images. One camera takes a picture every ten minutes over a period of up to 4 months. The single images are manipulated in photoshop before set together to a movie. The sound design is inspired by the modulation of a single sample, which makes the sun's rays audible as vibrations. Absolutely no generative image synthesis is used.

The title of the series, ‘DescendingAscending,’ deliberately plays with the natural processes in the plant world and turns them upside down. Normally, we experience the growth of a plant, followed by its withering. However, the series stages a recurring cycle of growth, wilting and renewed strength. This reversal, which is almost reminiscent of a resurrection, stems from a fascination with film footage showing the decay of a plant, but played backwards. Combined with footage of actual growth or wilting, this creates a closed cycle that reinterprets natural processes.

The viewer is presented with a multitude of movements that they might not otherwise attribute to plants. This is not a scientific observation of plant life, but rather an artistic approach to the dynamics and diversity of plant movement.They are observed in a multitude of individual movements – both as they grow and as they decay. For the viewer, a complex world of forms emerges, which has led to unique compositional decisions for each plant or group of plants. As a painter and sculptor, the artist brings his own unique perspective on natural processes and incorporates them into his observations.The sound design of the films reinforces this atmospheric interpretation.

Descendingascending is an ongoing series of short films that combine time-lapse footage of wilting and growing plants with sound to create cinematic collages. They encourage a reflection on nature, beauty and waste as well as on transience, growth and resurrection.

The film material consists of high-resolution single images. One camera takes a picture every ten minutes over a period of up to 4 months. The single images are manipulated in photoshop before set together to a movie. The sound design is inspired by the modulation of a single sample, which makes the sun's rays audible as vibrations. Absolutely no generative image synthesis is used.

The title of the series, ‘DescendingAscending,’ deliberately plays with the natural processes in the plant world and turns them upside down. Normally, we experience the growth of a plant, followed by its withering. However, the series stages a recurring cycle of growth, wilting and renewed strength. This reversal, which is almost reminiscent of a resurrection, stems from a fascination with film footage showing the decay of a plant, but played backwards. Combined with footage of actual growth or wilting, this creates a closed cycle that reinterprets natural processes.

The viewer is presented with a multitude of movements that they might not otherwise attribute to plants. This is not a scientific observation of plant life, but rather an artistic approach to the dynamics and diversity of plant movement.They are observed in a multitude of individual movements – both as they grow and as they decay. For the viewer, a complex world of forms emerges, which has led to unique compositional decisions for each plant or group of plants. As a painter and sculptor, the artist brings his own unique perspective on natural processes and incorporates them into his observations.The sound design of the films reinforces this atmospheric interpretation.