Deforestation remains one of the most urgent causes of climate change, yet environmental destruction often continues through ordinary economic routines, almost unnoticed. Across the world, ecological disasters return each year with increasing force, displacing lives, eroding landscapes, and leaving behind irreversible loss. Still, the rhythm of extraction rarely slows.
This work observes tree cutting inside Bhawal National Park, where sections of protected land are gradually absorbed into local systems of production. Much of the wood enters the furniture industry, while the remainder is used as fuel for brick kilns built near branches of the Turag River. In the process, both forest and river enter a shared condition of exhaustion.
What appears here is not only the removal of trees, but a wider choreography of depletion, where industrial repetition, economic necessity, and environmental neglect unfold side by side. The image of destruction becomes rhythmic, almost ordinary, even as the surrounding ecosystem moves quietly toward disappearance.
Bhawal, Gazipur, Bangladesh, 30 March 2019
