The wardrobe standing against the southern wall of my bedroom has five doors, two of them are white and the other three are covered with a glass mirror, intended to make the room appear larger from what it actually is in reality. Laying in bed I stare in the mirror observing the reflection of the window on the other side of the room where the sun starts to rise. It’s still early but I’ve been up for a while now, breathing and looking around, occasionally closing my eyes to look inside. A cream tone curtain hanging on a rod in front of the window allows brightness and colors to slowly drape inside. Hesitating once more, I get out of the bed, open the door and step outside. Another day starts, with gentle indifference I'm here to witness it, live it, participate or not.
Often I choose not to, but the work here will aim to convince you otherwise. Resisting the logical pattern of thoughts I employ an anachronism as a natural state of mind, trying to create an opportunity to look, be present and innocent. Like most of us, I too try to control my destiny, though usually fail, and the journey will unexpectedly take me elsewhere, to places where nothing special happens on the surface, challenging me to look deeper to witness the beauty of its existence.
As the day progresses strange and familiar entities passing me by, some leave me with pleasure or another strong emotion, but I try not to fall into these traps. It’s the one that leaves me with no feelings at all that I’m most attracted to. The numbness of the routine is my salvation, the place that I look to find meaning. Exploring the edges and vertices of its voidness, I try to know this moment for the first time, experience it for what it is, wondering why so often I told myself other stories about it that I almost forgot its simplicity and purity.
The work you’ll find here is my attempt to stay true to the concepts above. The significance that it holds for me is most likely different from your notion, though I’m sharing it with you here with the hope that it may inspire you to look beyond what you see here and in other parts of your life.
~ Alon Z