Since 2016 Marcel started chasing the theme of human mobility. Their gatherings and the variety of subjects drive people together. Individuals have the mysterious ability to form one great mass of unity - a multitude.
This series of images, named "Cataclysm", compose an organic narrative. It intends to explore and understand the reason why people dwell so close together when they place themselves around a common theme. It suggests that the symphony of unity could only be tuned when some sort of adoration atmosphere is shared, towards something or someone.
2020 brought unexpected limitations that deeply uprooted many of our most natural and visceral wants and needs - we could not gather anymore. The multitudes were banned and scattered to individual "confinement cells". Individuals are composing a global narrative of unanimous solitude. Human beings are contained, and our resilient strength can only be quietly spotted through a window or beyond a fence on the corner of a few blessed backyards.
The portrait of mobility might be reaching the anti-type of Cataclysm's first images. That's the reason why this work remains alive - curiously seeking mankind.
This is what the LORD says:
"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place?” Isaiah 66:1
Dirt, Seed, Water and Light
Turning into sprouts and trees.
The leafs are our ROOF.
They mean air
They mean shelter
They mean shade
Since there is seed in the earth there is life for us
Since there is seed inside a man there is hope for life.
The earth is our home, the leafs are our roof
And every life fits a seed
Collection of photos of my garden’s leafs, the ROOF of my existence.