Chalk-STONE-WHITE, 2024

We walk through collapsed burial-mounds, along worn tarmac, salt-marshes, quagmires of mud, black crows impale insects; congregating, conversing, across the floodplain; the curves of the river reconfigured over time by many indentured hands. Chalk-stone-white. The land and its inhabitants becoming only subjects and resources for consumption by each successive ruling entity.

Seven Sisters, the English Channel. We stand on the beach-head, the sky darkening, suspended in a container of fog, where earlier, they raised a spider-web of steel-scaffold to block the encroachment of fascism raging across Europe. The remnants of shipwrecks pierce from the waters; mercury and sodium-nitrate leaking from their hulls; essentials of industrialisation and warfare, far more valuable than any human cargo. We breathe in the centuries of blood and salt in the air and feel at home.

Monika k. adler – photography, Aeon Rose – Text, 2024 ©


SHOWN IN BIAF 2025 – Busan International Environmental Art Festival: Invited Artist: Monika K. Adler.

Shown IN Auckland Photography Festival, 2025

SHOWN IN POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, VISUAL AIDS BENEFIT BARRY  CAMPBELL GALLERY, NEW YORK

Published in ‘1:1’ Photo Magazine, Number 56I Madrid, Spain, Spring 2025

published in Visual Poetry Journal, Issue 1, Tbilisi, Georgia, April 2025

Published by Private Photo Review, Paris, France, 19 December, 2024