Fathom is the result of a live performance in which Katja Bjørn staged a radical act of empathy toward nature. Inspired by the Buddhist practice of prayer-walking, she measured a small island south of Læsø in the Kattegat Sea using the length of her own body. Moving with the meditative rhythm of an inchworm, her performance became a maternal embrace of the landscape as well as a homage to the most humble forms of life. This act of measurement without quantification dissolves the perceived divide between body and nature, transforming the experience into a pure, embodied interaction. The body, in turn, enters a slower, more contemplative temporality, aligned with the rhythms of the natural world.
CRECREDITS
Camera: Ole Bjørn Petersen, Jacob Jakobsen, Jan Rüzz
Sound design: Nicolas Vetterli
Concept, editing and colour grading: Katja Bjørn
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