GYPSY SŌL NŌ[W]HERE
An ongoing travelog — When I shift my focus and slow down life with all of my senses, it becomes easier to find pieces of peace in the everyday.
GYPSY SŌL NŌ[W]HERE
In today's technologically advanced world, how we "share" and view our lives varies from how we live and actively participate in it. Tweets, posts and pins are the basis of social interaction and interconnectivity; many of us merely going through the motions of living, as a screen blocks the real view — inside & out. I have a hard time living this way, though I get sucked in too — and the GYPSY SŌL NŌ[W]HERE travelog, is my response and balance to keeping habitual patterned life we've assimilated to at bay.
Similarly the title, itself, ebbs and flows like water, like life. All variations of it speak to the multi-dimensionality of who we are and how we are interconnected:
GYP·SY
THEY CAN BE VERY PASSIONATE AND OFTEN INSPIRED BY DIFFERENT IDEAS, ATTITUDES & EXPERIENCES
KNO
KNOW
NO
NOW
SŌL
SOUL
ESSENCE, BEING
SUN, LIGHT
(H)WER
WHERE
HERE
HER
PRINTS & PROCESS
This work began during a trip home to the Philippines in 2006. Serendipitously, though it was not my first time to my mother's homeland — my ancestral homeland — it was the first time in which I had a creative outlet with me. The work here has been captured stateside and abroad, with beauty and decay found in the Philippines, Peru, Mexico, Southern Illinois, California, Colorado, Louisiana, and Utah, to name a few. As I travel, and expand my reach as a global citizen, I continue to capture places and spaces in this manner. The majority of the work presented was captured with a 4x5 camera, my preferred camera, as well as other forms of film and digital capture alike.
“These captured moments are about reflection, presence, being grounded, and knowing who you are — in your head, and in your heart.” — Sarah Paz Hyde