Starting route to wasteland, a journey through a pharmaceutical utopia. Follow the path revealed by the mushroom, a mycelium trail. Remember, the difference between medicine and poison is in the dosage.
You will pass by automatic little lawnmowers, maintaining the order of the lawn. Welcome to an artificial nature, an artificial paradise.
The landscape is lush, rich, curated and arranged to hide the infrastructure of a mega-pharma industry.
This garden cost Novartis millions.
Next, you will approach the exclusion zone. Question: The exclusion zone for whom?
Warning: Area ahead is contaminated and uninhabitable.
Most of the entities here are herbal medicines feeding from the poisoned land. Notice the weeds reclaiming toxic territory. Question: How to measure toxicity?
You will see fields of yellow grass.
Question: How does one clean durt? Answer: Stratification.
For soil treatment, sediments were transported by boat on the Rhine all the way to the Netherlands and back. Question: What happens with the natural role of rivers as sediment carriers when they travel upstream?
Question: Where and why is the line drawn? What’s really being divided? Can we treat things in isolation? Where do borders blur?
The other side is tired, exhausted, neglected, fenced off, overworked, traumatized. It also cost Novartis millions.
Question: Can we treat things in isolation?
Where do borders bleed?
Embarking on a journey through a barren land,
Venturing into a realm of pharmaceutical dreams
The mushroom unveils the path of mycelium
The line between cure and curse lies in the dosage
Can we truly isolate entities for treatment?
Where do boundaries blur?
Automated tiny landscapers, maintaining the manicured lawns
A fabricated Eden, an artificial paradise
Our surroundings are verdant, abundant, meticulously designed to conceal the unsightly infrastructure of the pharmaceutical giants. It cost Novartis a fortune The other side is weary, neglected, cordoned off, overworked, traumatized. It cost Novartis a fortune
Where is the line drawn and why? What is truly being separated? Boundaries exist everywhere, they say Can we truly isolate entities for treatment? Where do boundaries blur?
The restricted area? Restricted for whom?
Tainted and uninhabitable
Mostly herbal remedies sprouting from the contaminated soil
Invasive plants reclaiming polluted territory How to quantify toxicity
Fields of yellow grass
How does one purify soil? Stratification
For soil treatment, sediments were transported via boat on the Rhine all the way to the Netherlands and back. What happens to the natural role of rivers as sediment carriers when they travel upstream?
Pilgrimage into wasteland,
through a pharmaceutical utopia
The mushroom revealing the mycelium path
The difference between medicine and poison is it’s dose
Can we really treat things in isolation?
Where do borders bleed?
Automatic little lawnmowers, they make sure the lawn doesn't look wild
Artificial nature, articifical paradise
Our landscape is lush, rich, curated and arranged in a landscape composition which hides the ugly infrastructure of mega-phara-industry.
It cost Novartis millions
The other is tired, exhausted, neglected, fenced off, overworked, traumatized.
It cost Novartis millilons
Where and why is the line drawn? And what's really being devided?
Border between many things, they say
Can we really treat things in isolation?
Where do borders bleed?
The exclusion zone? The exclusion zone for whom?
How to messure toxicity
Contaminated and inhitable
Most of them herbal medicines feeding from the poisoned land
Weeds reclaiming toxic territorry
How to messure toxicity
Yellow gras
How do you clean soil?
Stratification
For the treatment of the soild sediments were carried by boat on the Rhine all the way to the Netherlands and back. What happens whith the natural role of rivers as sediment carriers when they travel upstream?