The Horizon Is Too Loud, 2026, 33x47 cm, 46 pages, 150 copies

Images & Text: Hanna Mattes 

Design: Zoé Boissin-Peras 

The Horizon is Too Loud began as a 20-day transoceanic journey from Chile to Australia. From the deck of the ship, I photographed the horizon daily while keeping a journal, following a line that promises orientation yet continuously withdraws from it. At sea, the horizon becomes unstable. It shifts with light, weather, and perception. It resists fixation and seems to dissolve into the atmosphere.

The work draws on the ancient Micronesian practice of wavepiloting, a form of navigation based on reading the subtle rhythms of wind, currents, and swells. In contrast to Western cartographic systems, it suggests a relational way of moving through the world. This knowledge becomes a lens through which to reflect on the ecological disorientation of the Anthropocene. In this way this body of work deals with climate instability, rising seas, and the erosion of inherited frameworks for understanding the planet.

Across a series of horizon photographs and a prose-poetic text of approximately ten pages, the project explores what it means to orient oneself within a world increasingly unmoored. The horizon, once a stable reference point, becomes saturated—almost deafening—no longer offering clarity but exposing the limits of human-centered ways of seeing.

This newspaper style publication contains of 46 pages, is printed at Paypernews SAS in Paris, designed by Zoé Boissin-Peras, text editing by Linda Theodorou and Peter Mellgard and comes in an edition of 150.