Kitchen.
The last place I could imagine the artful as trasformative was the kitchen.
Transformation allowing the flow, the non-visible, the sensed, the intimate, the poetic to emerge.
Participating in these events are (at least) two cameras – digital Canon EOS 550D Serial Number 71230993 and 6×9 Box Tengor 54/2, 1928-34 model, a woman photographer, their surroundings, and the actions taken by each of these participants.
The photographs embody movements in front of the camera, emerging from liminal spaces, of experiences felt but not seen by the eyes.
Monday, January 20, 2014 at 3:33 PM
Canon announces her presence also by the sounds of lens’s movements as she searches the focal point in relation to movements or the space in front of her, and by the monotonous rhythm sound of the shutter.
The photographs were just taken, or more accurately, they became, as part of an event. Both digital and box-camera co-exist in these experiences, performing collaborative exploration of that which cannot be seen by the eyes, but is felt by existence.
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Throughout my childhood and adolescence, the present moment was not a safe place to be in, nor did it feel like being at home.
My mother’s kitchen, 1969-2009:
Emptying my parents’ house (kitchen), 2009
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Lately, the experience of being in the present moment is gradually transformed; and kitchen is the most surprising place for this transformation to emerge: The present moment is cutting vegetables. The present moment is cooking soup. The present moment is mindful eating. The present moment is cleaning the dishes. The present moment is also letting the camera take snapshots of my daily labour.
I breath with my eyes. The camera breathes with her lens and shutter. Digital multiplicity of shots, hundreds of frames per day, or analog layers of exposures on film become kind of blinking.
Views of transformation 2015-2017 (click circles for enlarged images):
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Transformation heals my past.
And finally, for the moment, welcoming new inhabitant:
Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 12:42 PM
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