stav B

Obsessive Natures

I am in awe with the resilience and immortality of grass. Without its existence, there would be famine and with its tenacity the earth is held in place. It provides food for all living beings and protects the soil from erosion. It is found everywhere, adaptable and penetrative: in lush rainforests, inaccessible slopes, forbidding mountains and in the privacy of deserts. It is ecologically, philosophically and historically vital, eternal and futuristic, after water, light and air. I am creating a kineograph (flipbook), simulating motions in quick successions and obscure animating tableaux vivants and narratives of my current everyday life (isolation, distance, presence and absence, imagination, memory, nostalgia, experience, loss and hope) on my daily walks, where I interact with nature, especially grass in an open space and among the trees. What is lurking underneath these slender fibres: a living and breathing microcosmos, ignored or forgotten.

As I meditate, I float like a cloud, while I am grounded, feeling the earth underneath my never-ending steps, feeling the grass.

These images of this simple daily ritual symbolise my gratitude and humility, but also the current uncertainty (pandemic and far right ideologies/ policies), disrupting the equilibrium of life. With these images of this ritual, I take charge of the resistance, subverting the dislocated vision with panorama.

It is a matter of space, spatial expansion and the wandering, wondering eye devouring the attention and attendance.

I am everywhere virtually, but nowhere physically; my Carte de Tendre is intensified and imagined.

My body adapts to its dislocation and the solitary voyage, craving intimacy and collaboration and at the same time, longing for solitude and privacy; one with the earth, its smells, its air, its water, its life and recollection, rejecting subordination and embodying adapted strength.