Memento Mori
Memento Mori reflects on the accelerating loss of the natural world. Responding to bird flu, European wildfires, extreme heat and the Shot-hole Borer’s threat to Boorloo’s tree canopy, it revisits National Geographic magazines from Bernadt’s childhood. For Bernadt, images that once opened windows onto extraordinary places now also evoke the fragility of those worlds. By hand-punching and reassembling thousands of circles, Bernadt reconstructs these printed worlds, transforming mass-produced images into records of care, memory and loss.
