Nine waves made of solid wood run through a forest in Germany. They don’t look real, but they are really there, near Hamburg, hand-built by Jörg Gläscher, a German photographer and artist.
His installation, entitled C19/18, is part of a large diary project that began before the pandemic and was created to show the immense power of nature over everything around us.

“A wave is a periodic oscillation or one-time disturbance change in the state of a system.”

C19/18 was built using branches and dead wood and consists of nine ridges, the largest of which is four metres high and nine metres wide. Jörg Gläscher built every detail of it, photographing it from several points of view, and then destroyed each environment to use the wood several times.

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The effect is truly anomalous because each wave seems to grow from the ground, ready to destroy everything. The waves sweep over the forest floor, producing undulating layers and invading the landscape.
See a selection of images here, follow the artist on Instagram and visit his personal website.