Every year, when the spring sun melts the last snowflakes on the slopes of the Black Forest mountains, the inhabitants of the big towns and villages put the finishing touches to their costumes, adjust the pennants in the streets and count the bells on their belts. As winter draws to an end, madmen, witches and devils invade the streets of their towns and villages in ancient, codified celebrations that have lost none of their importance or symbolism for those who take part.

This cartography of the Black Forest retraces the journeys made over the years and started in 2022, demonstrating the heterogeneous nature of these traditions, which occupy a more important place than Christmas. It highlights the differences between regions and towns in an attempt not to paint a complete, documentary portrait of the Black Forest, but rather to show that regardless of the place, the size of the village or the weather, carnival madness strikes all these figures, who are reborn each year with the same excessiveness as a symbol of freedom.