The Nanna project was produced in the weeks after Scott Carl’s grandmother was rushed to the hospital for emergency cancer surgery. He describes the period as “a time of uncertainty, disbelief and tears, but also of laughter and meaningfulness.” What began as a therapeutic process for navigating loss soon became about life more than death; swelling into an exploration of the artist’s relationship with his father, now reshaped by loss and transition.

Even though the project was made as a way of letting go and remembering his grandma, as it unfolded it turned out to be much more about life than death. Nanna is about the lived life both in terms of themes, and in terms of the details in the pictures: Human relations and nature.