Night Motions

The resulting photographs are a guide through the dark landscapes of the self, showing us external locations and discarded emotions in space, encouraging us to face the neglected internal domains.

Night Motions

The kind of photographs resulting from my nighttime rides necessitates my incessant movement, questioning the limits of the known over and over again, succumbing to the adventurous drive without a pre-formulated goal. Committing to the creative process I let photography turn into an expression of genuine emotion. Abstract layers of being combine mutually, intertwining like a collage with the spatially visible silhouettes, creating surreal scenes for safe exploration of emotional bodies and objects. Over-accentuating the random elements of nighttime streets, I create seemingly surreal landscapes, different world, a movie scene or a surreal sight within the emotional field of collective loneliness. My surrealism serves the purpose of facing the layers of reality we are trying to avoid. We are so immersed in some of our illusions that we have stopped questioning them. I am not pursuing any landmarks or tourist attractions. On the contrary: my method turns the notion of tourist photography into an irony. The locations attracting to me are marginalized, neglected and unfrequented. The thematic thread encompassing the entire series of my photographs is recognizing, naming and accepting alienated emotions, neglected parts of the self, the aspects of human existence we dread from with not real reason.