'interpose' is a diptych from the series 'body maps'.
Body maps by Margaret Lansink is a visual interpretation of the ambivalence between hiding, accepting, and fighting the stereotypes around women’s age. This project invites to contemplate if it is worth intruding into the natural processes. It interconnects delicate feminine images with close-up observations of nature where human intervention has left a deep impact. Lansink documented industrial forests in Portugal, grown for paper production and set on fire for the harvest. Neglecting the side effects of such massive fires on the living ecosystem, the industry thrives through indifference. Margaret Lansink uses photography to bridge the personal and universal. The way she photographs is purely intuitive. Her images present an open and honest reflection of her own inner emotions, shot as self-portraits in the broadest sense of the word. In body maps, Lansink combines liquid light, silver gelatin, and polaroid prints, applying to some of them the charcoal from the burnt woods that she photographed.