Daily Practice (2015) is an ongoing project composed of a photographic series and a sequence of short experimental videos. It deals with the question of the familiar, through the habit of looking and moving through space.
Knowledge of a place is made from experiences, mostly of habits; a daily practice. Momentary and undramatic, repeated day after day, it’s a unique blend of the continual encounter with sight, sounds and smells, a unique harmony of natural and artificial rhythms. The feel of a place is obtained in the memory of one’s muscles and bones.
In Daily Practice, my body is the measure of the direction, location and distance of each of the images, which are taken while my body moves, and spaces open out before it, and in conformity with its physical structure during the process of my everyday routine. The objects photographed in this series are viewed through this distance of my body, they are still lives, but they are also a presence in front of my breathing body.
Through this the series aims to communicate how the human being, by its mere presence, imposes a schema on space. The schema comes from movement and belongs to movement; it is based in habit and crosses over into the places in which we form habits, the places we inhabit. A habit is a style of movement shaped by a past history of movement.
Knowledge of a place is made from experiences, mostly of habits; a daily practice. Momentary and undramatic, repeated day after day, it’s a unique blend of the continual encounter with sight, sounds and smells, a unique harmony of natural and artificial rhythms. The feel of a place is obtained in the memory of one’s muscles and bones.
In Daily Practice, my body is the measure of the direction, location and distance of each of the images, which are taken while my body moves, and spaces open out before it, and in conformity with its physical structure during the process of my everyday routine. The objects photographed in this series are viewed through this distance of my body, they are still lives, but they are also a presence in front of my breathing body.
Through this the series aims to communicate how the human being, by its mere presence, imposes a schema on space. The schema comes from movement and belongs to movement; it is based in habit and crosses over into the places in which we form habits, the places we inhabit. A habit is a style of movement shaped by a past history of movement.
