Traces belongs to a series of landscapes devoid of human presence, photographed along the Baltic coast in the Kaliningrad region. Scattered stones lie across the wet sand while the sea recedes into a blurred field of water and light. The image presents the shoreline not as a setting for human experience, but as an autonomous environment shaped by movement, erosion and duration.

The title refers to forms of presence that remain subtle and incomplete. Here, traces are not marks left by human activity, but slight material indications produced by the relation between water, sand and stone. The small rocks appear as isolated points within a shifting coastal surface, suggesting temporary registration rather than fixed placement. In this way, the landscape is approached through a posthuman perspective, where matter records its own passage without requiring a human witness.

Created using analogue photography, the image retains the grain and tonal softness characteristic of the medium. The long exposure blurs the movement of the sea and softens the boundary between shore and water, while the stones remain as quiet interruptions within the frame. As a result, the observed landscape becomes suspended between documentation and disappearance, allowing the image to register the fragile persistence of matter over time.