Dead Birds Flying High
Sönje Storm
Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882–1940) was only too happy to neglect his duties as a farmer for the loving documentation of a state of nature that is lost today.
In a northern German attic: boxes of pinned butterflies, carefully hand-coloured photographs of the local flora and fauna, hundreds of stuffed and dusty birds – Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882–1940) did a great job. His collections echo a present that doesn’t exist anymore. And yet all signs of an ecological crisis can be found buried in them.
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