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"The road must eventually lead to the whole world"
(Jack Kerouac).
"The Road Art
Series" (a series of more than 70 images) is part of the mobile phone photography instagram project that
consists of 2 additional series, "Today's Green Field" and "T5 Art".
Road markings and
traffic signage is a language of its own. It often transcends many other
languages limitations and has the potential of becoming a universal one. But
like with any kind of language
or ways of communicating, words, symbols, sounds, all change their meaning
according to their context, and their content depends very much on how,
when, where and who are they shared with.
There is an element of
what could be considered "readymades", although there is clear
intervention and manipulation as I try to establish a collaboration that
allows me, by changing their context (extracting them from what many may
consider the "mundane"), to open up a whole new world of meaning and
understanding.
"On the Road"
sub-series shows impressions of my daily travels, including traffic jams,
road and surrounding landscape and acts as a bridge between the other 2
series "Today's Green Field" and "T5 Art", both interchangeable points of
origin and destination of my daily commute.
While this series
plays with the relativity of meaning, context and content, it also attempts
to highlight the absolute and universal where inherent beauty too often
seems to go unnoticed.
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