"Other Worlds Ours" is a photographic project consisting of ten works, beeing a visual experiment, and an attempt at empathetic insight into the reality of a small rodent – the Wood Mouse. The series invites viewers to experience the perspective of another creature and to enter its limited yet intensely dramatic world.
The project began with a scene captured two years earlier, titled "The Mystery of a Day Before": a rodent's body suspended by its own entrails from a branch, beeing a victom of preyed upon by a shrike, a bird of prey that, in this way, marks its territory while simultaneously storing food.
This experience initiated a photographic investigation: an attempt to reconstruct the everyday life of a wood mouse, not as a general representative of the species, but as a specific creature whose fate was brutally interrupted.
This research took the form of fieldwork – photographing an area limited to a thirty-metre radius around its burrow, near the documented find. The mouse spends most of its life in this area, rarely straying far from its refuge. Photographs taken reveal the animal's perspective: focused on the centre, with expanded yet blurred peripheral vision. The choice of dusk – the rodent's peak activity and, simultaneously, the time of greatest threat from predators – instils in the viewer an atmosphere of constant tension.
The project demonstrates that even a small space can become a dramatic microcosm: a network of paths, landmarks, and micro-events. The viewer is invited to experience this world from the scale of a mouse – a world where every step is fraught with risk and vigilance.
"Other Worlds Ours" is not merely a narrative about a single forest mouse, but an allegory for the broader experience of coexistence among all living beings. Each species has its own perspective, goals, and threats, yet all these worlds contribute to a single shared reality. The project emphasises the need for empathy and respect for other life forms, recognising that what remains on the margins of nature for humans is an entire universe for animals – full of beauty but also of constant danger.
When we learn more about other worlds, it becomes easier for us to understand and protect them.
