What people do after a disaster? They gather what is left. They fix what can be fixed. They are trying to figure out what went wrong and trying to fix something for the future. This is theory, but in practice everything is much more complicated. And having stepped on the wrong road once, you can walk along it for a long time and not find what you are looking for.
Have you heard of Camino de Santiago? This is the way that pilgrims go to the relics of St. James. There are many starting points, but all roads come together in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. They say this path helps to find yourself if you are lost, and people return different from this place. In some esoteric traditions, Camino is considered a sacrament and a practice that is available to everyone.
I walked this way of 383 kilometers. From Porto to Santiago de Compostela and on to Fistera. A place called the “end” or “edge" of the world.
It gave me the strength to move on. The Way of St. James is an opportunity to live a small life. In the first days of Camino, you learn to just walk, like a little child. You are changing. And you are not changing under the influence of things around you. All changes happen only in your head.
You keep going and step by step new, very important thoughts come to you, which for some reason you could not have thought of or accepted before. You get new experience, meet new people. You have the opportunity to feel some simple moments that we have always known about reasonably, but never understood in our hearts.
My photo project is about the search, about how a person can change, and about what I learned in that way.