Inspired by Paul Celan’s 'In the Rivers North of the Future', Oksana Meister attempts to showcase the silences, cracks, and stillness

Photo Story - By Oksana Meister

North of the Future’ by Oksana Meister (@oksana.meister ) is a visual meditation on absence, memory, and the weight of language. Inspired by Paul Celan’s poem In the Rivers North of the Future. Water and ice, skin and fracture, gesture and disappearance — all converge in a poetics of mourning and persistence. The images of broken surfaces, frozen gestures, and submerged meanings seek to carry the weight of what cannot be said, yet insists on presence.

This series is not an illustration, but a personal attempt to listen to the silences, fractures, and dense stillnesses that language sometimes leaves behind.

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