Eternal U is a story about the so-called good death and eternity. Through photographs of forests that are natural cemeteries where the dead are buried in biodegradable urns or coffins, marked only by a tree chosen beforehand, Humka shows a certain way of considering ourselves as a code, an immortal chain of a larger universe. Throughout life, we all draw on it, to later give it a part of ourselves:
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\n"In each of these places, the forest itself, which gives eternal rest to the people buried there, was the most important element for me," explains Hubert Humka. - I photographed the ground in which they rested and the bark of the trees they became. I like to think that the roots of these trees, drawing on the people buried beneath them, include them in their existence, that nothing stops, that it is only our human self that changes. We become a tree, a forest, a part of something bigger that surpasses us. We connect to the universe, we become infinite."
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\n Eternal U is the second, after Death Landscapes (2018), joint publishing project of Hubert Humka and BLOW UP PRESS. The book was created in the spirit of sustainable development, respect for the world and the surrounding nature, on ecological recycled papers. Its main axis is made up of photographs of the forest, accompanied by negative modifications and a text in relief on the theme of the exit. The graphic techniques used symbolize the perception of the world from the other side and the trace we leave behind us.
