“Still Life

(a fleeting glance)

 

A still life is created when the eye forms an image from a collection of small, inanimate objects, fruits, and food. As a street photographer, my studio is the street—the public space. In this environment, the eye sometimes focuses on small details, rearranging them and recreating them from chaotic masses according to its own rules. Inanimate everyday objects, fruits, and food are connected to human nature. The eye captures the impassive nature of order. These so-called images—still lifes—can be found everywhere in the outside world. Discovering and isolating them constitutes the photographic still life. This fleeting composition, this chaotic harmony and harmonious chaos, has arisen by itself and has not been arranged by human hands. The eye simply caught it. This is what I do: found objects, readymades—the recomposition of a collection of everyday inanimate objects, fruits, vegetables, and foodstuffs.