Freies Projekt – Missing Link

Simon Sola Holischka

MISSING LINK is a photographic project about curiosity, inquisitiveness and the quest for answers. It is about the determination to dig deeper and uncover layer by layer. The centerpiece of this body of work is the „primal bird“ Archaeopteryx, the initially missing evolutionary connecting link between dinosaurs and birds. Simon Sola Holischka used multi-imaging techniques like stitching and focus stacking to photograph it’s fossil remnants with the accuracy and detail of several hundred photographs per image. The artistic process itself is determined by deconstruction and reconstruction. MISSING LINK is an obsessive search for the point where the separate is connected. In a fragmented world, with a fragmented mind we see fossils of an extinct creature from a petrified past that will never be again. Yet there is evolution, there are feathers, there is flight.

„There is a crack in everything -
that’s where the light comes in.“*

• )Leonard Cohen