Hömyran
Photography and samples of meltwater

To walk on a mountain that otherwise is a pit. I wrote this one summer a few years ago when the amount of snow on the Hömyran snow dump site was so great that one could climb up onto a plateau of snow, sand and debris instead of sloshing down into a crazy pit. Likewise, it was 2023, the huge amounts of snow did not have time to melt away before the next winter came, similar to a glacier, but of anthropogenic origin. Cavities, labyrinthine passages are formed in the packed snow deposit with flows of polluted meltwater that flow into the waterways, into the bog and into the ground.

Fanny Carinasdotter (b.1978 in Avesta) lives and works in Umeå. She mainly works with photography and is interested in the history of places and humans’ (ab-)use of nature. In addition to Verkligheten, Carinasdotter is involved in the artist group Norrakollektivet, together they have exhibited at Moderna Museet and ArkDes in Stockholm, Havremagasinet in Boden and Bildmuseet in Umeå, among others.