Questions of ‘who we are’ are often intimately associated with questions of ‘where we are’, a concept capted within the environmental psychological concept of place-identity. Nature is an extension of ourselves and when we see a beautiful scenery, our minds tend to cease brooding over the countless thoughts and will be thoughtless for that moment. That state is our true being and it is absolute bliss and love incarnate. Only if we could achieve it without the external stimulus, such as a beautiful scenery; that would be realisation. My anxious mind tends to take control in most situations however when in an open landscape the emotion is lifted- if not lifted, pushed aside by the vast open space. My own attachments to these individual places are brought on by familial nostalgia.
SILUNMAISEMA aims to visually depict the beauty of the human-landscape relationship. The landscapes I visit that made me feel I did belong there, it felt like ‘home’. Not home as in ‘house’ but more a connection between place and the inner self. It simply is ‘me’, that is how ‘being here’ is experienced.
