Moving box of opportunities
In this project, my intention was to produce a series of photographs documenting every material object I possessed at a specific point in time and place. I think of it as a portrait, an archive, a document, an experiment, a test of my own perseverance, an evidence of my existence. It was an attempt to deconstruct myself and to rebuild again, to observe a fleeting state of transition that is so hard to see in oneself. These belongings were accumulated over a period of over ten years of my life in Norway, from 2008 till 2019. At the moment I was sure I would be leaving the country that had become my home, and as a result felt an urgency to find answers that would help close this chapter of my life.
A Moving Box of Opportunities, or an Incomplete Inventory of Everything I Have as of March, 30 2019, 13:28 (excerpt)
Full length: 4 hours 7 minutes
List of commonly used words, phrases, and names
Each object was given a short description, sometimes revealing, and other times cryptic, only to be understood by me. Below is the list of words, phrases and names I used most often.
book —158 times
mom — 77 times
Nikolai — 57 times
art — 41 times
IKEA — 35 times
Norway — 31 times
“I was into” — 28 times
socks — 27 times
Berlin — 25 times
German — 22 times
Francesco — 22 times
underwear — 20 times
tights — 19 times
Møhlenpris — 19 times
Leipzig — 17 times
Balazs — 16 times
Sarah — 16 times
Norwegian — 16 times
“on my own” — 14 times
sewing — 12 times
Russian — 11 times
Yana — 11 times
Rick — 11 times
Denmark — 10 times
Krishna — 10 times
Yulia — 10 times
trash — 10 times
Tanya — 8 times
dad — 8 times
Fretex — 8 times
Ania — 7 times
Lucky — 7 times
second hand — 7 times
Bethlehem — 7 times
brother — 6 times
Humana — 5 times
Alla — 4 times
Stepa — 4 times
Studio space
