Puranen’s series of landscape photographs refers to sixteenth-century maps that showed unknown territories in the ‘New Age’ of geography, amazing people in the same way as the objects in the early museums, the ‘cabinets of curiosities’. Here the eternal forms of places unspoiled by civilization clash with references to the wounds inflicted by the urban excesses of our own age on a striking visual geography, while the flags function as melancholy reminders of our losses rather than our conquests.