Exhibition in Royal College of Art

2021

I am interested in the every day and the things that are overlooked. The moving landscape from a vehicle's window, and people walking on the street, always attract me.

Our life is occupied by plenty of mundane time spent walking, people traveling from home to their workplace or on the way to the supermarket every day, when they think about something else rather than the act of walking itself.

This routine of walking is often ignored, whereas I observe myself and others during the process and consider what is essential to record, otherwise, these daily walks are just a blurred memory when I look back. For example, while I walk from home to shop, approximately every two days, my thoughts are skimming across food, family, the future, and many other things and I am not focused on the views on each side of the street. I cannot specifically remember what I was thinking on each occasion. I believe everyday life and highlight moments should be treated equally. In order to describe these sorts of experiences I take photos and moving images as solid evidence for what actually happened in the past.

Everyday activities are something that potentially influences us, just like marks on a handle or creases on our face, we go through life without being aware of them. I try to use the simple and objective recording to make people aware of the considerable part of our lives consumed by walking, the traces of which are like a moving sketch of life on the planet.