The video expresses the sad reality of the harm that our society has been inflicting to Earth for centuries (especially since about the time of the industrial revolution). But the environmental crisis, although steadily growing, has been among us for several years. So what motivated Elisabeth to do this now? As she entered the abandoned warehouse where Misplaced and Forgotten is set, she instantly thought of it. Finding several objects and furniture left behind as if time had almost frozen made her feel that “you could see and feel the life that had come here before, the day-to-day until the space was just left behind, deserted, without any attachment or even care.”
As well, it gave her the impression that it was “representative of how we as humans treat our environment; how the surroundings that allow and define our existence can suddenly become so useless in our eyes once we are done with them, that we are not even able nor willing to leave it in a good condition.” Which is a reflection that the voiceover on the video also does: “We destroy our natural environment to build things for no one else but ourselves. And afterwards, after we have taken what we wanted, we throw it away.”