Are we sure we know the difference between what we see and what really exists? Where is the focus in our camera? Where is the perspective when we observe the world? Maybe the one we expected, maybe not. The act of living with the bare necessities allows us to live with what is necessary, this creates an opportunity for a window of true reality to show itself, to understand the current model of society.
After I moved to the USA, I met people in and around the organic farming movement who chose to move their lives and businesses to the margins of society. While their reasons differ the connection that runs between these communities is a desire to build something for the future, whether it’s to escape the big city, find affordable land, or produce life giving food.
“That silence beyond the window” wants to find a practical way to be aware of the moment when we are starting a new experience and about how we see the things. The experience in a place far away from the fast routine of the city, where you feel a way of living with bare necessities can show the complexity and therefore even to look beyond the window.
Wandering in this new geographical realm lead me to focus my gaze within this distant reality, and made every moment more intimate by being able to hear even that “silence”, that in the beginning it was unknown or seen in another way.