This dystopian series shows the Lesser Antilles at the dawn of humanity, when nature reclaims its rights. The horizon thickens, and we witness the history of a past being written, beneath increasingly present vegetation. Each façade and each ruin bear witness to different eras and facets of our humanity, like an indelible trace, at the heart of the fauna. Our presence has marked the ground forever, each trace is a stratum, and each stratum is a witness to our passage, all forming our unique history. Yet nature has no preference, and sooner or later, the last of our remains will remain forgotten deep within the ground, beneath the growth and expansion of other forms of life that will lead the future battles. These photographs offer you an intermediary, a moment of transition and respite during which our planet catches a new breath. Behind this dramatic visualization, there is also the beauty of life expressing itself, infinitely powerful and full of resources. Nothing ever stops, and when one paradigm comes to an end, a new one takes over.

It is also possible to approach this series from a different angle, and the last photographies show a hope and an alternative for humanity. That of a more measured coexistence between humans and their natural environment, in which every form of life finds its place. This lull obviously requires us to abandon our most deeply rooted desires for expansion in order to return to a more essential form of life. In the Antilles, I met many people who had learned to live with nature, and they benefited from it every day. I then noticed that behind the superfluous imposed by urbanization and capitalism, we have become blind to what is essential.

I understand that one might point to vulnerability to natural disasters to argue against this way of life. In reality, every form of life fights a battle at every level; taking its place or giving it back is the very heart of existence on Earth. In the Antilles, hurricanes are frequent; in some countries, it is diseases that ravage, but in our contemporary societies, we have become our own worst doubts. Wars, conflicts, accidents, constructed addictions, implicit rules and power relations have simply multiplied and displaced the source of our worries. We have simply replaced our first concerns with others, with ever-increasing complexity.