The Mouth as Landscape presents fractured human tooth fragments under the microscope. At this scale, enamel becomes cliff, pulp chamber becomes cave mouth, crystalline dentin becomes translucent glaciers. The familiar body part dissolves into something geological and vast. Teeth are sites of pain, memory, and mortality - first lost, then filled, eventually extracted. At the microscopic scale, their compromised structure becomes a landscape of its own logic.
By removing the tooth from any recognisable bodily context and rendering it at landscape scale, the work destabilises the viewer's sense of proportion and orientation, an invitation to following the contour of fracture lines.
The primary tension is between intimacy and distance. The subject is the most personal imaginable — tissue from inside a living mouth — yet the microscopic lens gets close enough to make it unrecognisable, remote, almost extraterrestrial. What is instinctively avoided is now in focus. A second tension: decay and crystalline beauty. Light is reflected from eroded formations, discolouration reads as pigmentation, stain as patina. The camera does not distinguish between damage and detail, it simply renders surface, remaining neutral. This, too, is a rupture.
Transitioning from body to object to landscape — the tooth migrates along categories within the image, always crossing.
Music by Elijah_K