The Chernobyl Herbarium

We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections meditations recollections and images - one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions thoughts and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed on the one hand and the generally applicable and universal on the other. Through words and images we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is we insist on the need to reflect upon signify and symbolize it taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and perhaps cultivating another more environmentally attuned way of living.