The project is about certain time and contextual differences, which I discovered during my 5 week residency in Berkeley, California. It reflects on the concrete environment, way of life, people, and characteristics. The project studies the specifics of “time” and “place”; it creates visual images based on the results of the artistic observation and discovery of a particular social system or territory.

This is a two-channel video installation on separate transparent screens. The first shows a large amount of animated, smooth motion still shots of houses, neighbourhoods and streets as a living context. There is an endless text that runs over the image throughout the entire time. With this text, it is like sharing some of my impressions, very simple, more like a variety of notes, with no pretension of being an accurate description; just words that came to mind during the observation. The text runs at a steady, slow speed, from left to right crossing the middle of the image. The second video presents the opposite situation, a close-up, retimed motion of a crowd, people just walking in the street. They are filmed as a multitude of shapes, or just focusing on some details, faces, directions. Generally it is an image depicting hectic everyday city life. Both channels combine and compare two different contexts – opposing and complementing each other through their content and meaning.