Walking mountains
Mountains are constantly walking. If we doubt the walking of mountains we also do not yet know our own walking*.
- Dôgen
Walking Mountains is an ongoing photographic project where all the images are made while extensively walking in the mountains.
Walking during large amounts of time in the mountain, allows us to dynamically experience the landscape, with all our senses being involved.
After spending a long time walking in the mountain, our attention slowly becomes totally focused on the outside, we are aware of the pathway, its roughness, the precise spot where we step. At the same time being conscious of our surroundings, the sound of the wind through the branches of trees, our footsteps on dry leaves; light and shadow intensities, colour tonalities on rocks and foliage; sensations on our skin, the changes in air temperature, and simultaneously, profound sensations, deep into our body, of balance and verticality, while we walk.
Our everyday mind quiets down, worries drifting to the background, seen from the wider perspective the mountain offers. The ruminating mind becomes almost silent while our awareness awakens, entering in a natural way onto a state of active contemplation, a state of photographic predisposition.
This way, we become aware of the multitude of images that surround us, with the potential to become a new photograph.
Exhibitions