WALKING

My work analyzes communication and its effects on perception. I have explored variants of discourse, documentation, alphabetic systems, signing, mapping, and language in relation to human body. Since 2006, my work has been dedicated to Walking - analysis of bordering, fragmented, urban spaces of large cities inhabited by diverse communities. Through photographs and drawings, I have explored how walking the city can become a spatial drawing. These works document walk routes and the effects of urban walking on the body.The photographic series WALKING was shot over a period of time [2006-2007] and are based on visual signs and various degrees of interaction and physical gestures that facilitate or cut off communication. It is pervaded by ubiquitous sense of estrangement resulting from being both present and detached [while walking], and inspired by the urban idiom of cities and neighborhoods, which I have had the chance to walk through in the past few years. WALKING resembles a photo-sequence, examining movement through the use of early chrono - photographic techniques.