‘Going away’ is one of life’s greatest pleasures, whether it’s running away from the city, leaving a bad job, from a bad relationship, from a bad lecture, from a bad party. Walking is basically analogous and so any attempt to portray it differently makes walking no more close to the experience we have. He Who Walks is a lonely Walker at every walk. Walking is the first thing a child wants to learn and the last thing old people want to give up. Slowness is the goal of these all-day walks of recording scenes with a camera. When we are in nature we have time stretched, there is no rush to speed up time. Slowness is the opposite of devouring time, slowness is merging with time, where stretched time deepens the experience of space. Most of the photographs are taken in Croatia, some of them in Slovenia and Italy.
‘Partir pour m’échapper du monde, j’ai fini au contraire, par en trouver un autre’, / ‘Leaving to escape from the world, I ended up on the contrary, by finding another‘
Paolo Rumiz; La légende des montagnes qui naviguent, Arthaud, 2017
Il y a 2500 ans, Pindare disait: ‘Naspire pas a l’existence éternelle mais épuise le champs du possible’. / 2500 years ago, Pindare said: ‘Do not aspire to eternal existence but exhaust the field of possibility’.
From introductory note of Héreve Hamon; Besoin de mer, Seul, 200
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