NATASA PETRESIN

Signs
I am interested in how we interact with an environment we visit for the first time (or we think we do so). The memory, accumulated from this life, cannot serve us well in that case, only the ancient feeling of orientating ourselves according to the logic of the city, its flow of live energy and the language of signs is relevant. Experiences can also function as fake alarms, they help us only to survive certain unpleasant situations or order us the precaution of a foreigner.

Views
The most unbelievable topographic truth is that almost every point on Earth has survived millions of bypassers, millions of looks, touches, inspirations, loves, ignoring. The streets, the landscapes I see for the first time, have been looked at, inhabited, used. All of this immateriality is printed in them and it manifests itself in the form of attraction you feel when you look at them.

Situations
One second or thousand years are equal in the vast hole of eternity. The compression of space-time continuum in one materialised moment can be seen as William Blake's grain of sand. The moment, when I am standing in the middle of a situation, I realise I am (like everybody else is) the centre of my universe. The position of the observer creates the situation on its own, it influences its evolution and thus observer's presence becomes the most important fact.

Roads
The means of communication are roads. At least two points are mentally connected through the physicality of asphalt, sand or water. We are not lost, either direction we take on them. They can also be dead end, long as a lifetime or simply lead deeper into a labyrinth. Sometimes you meet death hitchhiking by their side.