I remember Borjomi Gorge and its enchanting moss-grown coniferous forest as one of the most vivid and sweetest memories of my childhood. Recently, stressed out from inner city living I decided to return to this magical place and record it for my children. However, I was in for a major disappointment. On a mission to find the pristine woods of my memories, I walked through the forest of Gombori (East Georgia) and Borjomi Gorge (South Georgia) and sadly all I could find was the chopped and littered left over’s. I consciously did not want to walk through the territory of the National Park – it was obvious the forest would be preserved there. In order to have recorded the presented video, I had to clean up the territory from litter – plastic bottles, cigarette and other rubbish. It is a shocking realization to think that soon we will only have a recorded documentation of the forest and surrounding nature. ‘Save the forest for children’ phrase comes to be a banal verse devoid of any meaning amidst floods and landslides.

Elene RaQvia

Artist