A fascinating phenomenon in Denmark

maandag 20 juni 2022
14:00
Door: Noa Verseveldt

In the marshes of southwestern Jutland in Denmark, a fascinating phenomenon takes place every spring and autumn: hundreds of thousands of starlings congregate there during their migratory movement, forming gigantic formations in the air and producing movements similar to a dance.Text: Bart-jan Brouwer
Online editing: Noa Verseveldt

INK DRAWING IN THE SKY

This phenomenon is the basis of Søren Solkær's project "Black Sun. "Sometimes the swarm seems to possess the power of a superfluid, changing shape in an endless stream: from geometric to organic, from solid to liquid, from matter to ethereal, from reality to dream... An exchange in which time ceases to exist and the birds are imbued with mysticism," says the Danish photographer. "That is the moment I try to capture: a fragment of eternity." He has compiled his photographs, all visual poems, ink drawings in the sky, in the book Black Sun (also the name by which this phenomenon is known, as starlings darken the sky). Søren Solkaer is represented in the Netherlands by Vroom &Varossieau.

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