The title of my photo series refers to the origin of the word culture (Agricultural). The land cultivation, care for savvy, value-preserving landscape and spatial management are all stabilizers of culture and environment. Environmental degradation and destruction of nature may result in a decline in production, which may not only threaten the quality of human subsistence, but to the entire living environment.

With the photo series Cultura, I endeavoured to interpret spatial structures of settlements, because the consciousness of the individual and the community (identity) is determined in relation to its environment, the interaction of the two to a large extent. In my work, I set out to find identification points in the Great Plains that is the birthplace of my mother and the site of family myths.

The pictures in the series are monotonous, but not only due to the characteristics of the lowlands. The appearance of agricultural landscapes is effected by mechanized and standardized cultivation. Such landscapes often provide spatial framework for a trip. The monotony of photos refers to the overall monotony of a journey as well. Movement in time and space does not allow time of contemplation, only to registration. The photographs depicting landscapes included in the inventory are the same in size and composition. Their title is a number that increases in the footage recorded during the nearly two years as time passes.

Mária Pecsics