Riding the Earth
Riding the Earth
2024 - ongoing
In this photography series, I invite individuals I encounter, often in passing, to momentarily pause and sit on the ground in unexpected places. These quiet, participatory sessions unfold in overlooked or transitional spaces between destinations. They act as subtle interventions in daily life, encouraging a soft resistance to momentum and a rupture in routine.
The gesture is simple: sit, look ahead, and let the Earth carry you. While everything else continues… traffic, noise, schedules… the sitter remains still. And yet beneath them, the Earth is rotating at over a thousand kilometers an hour. I’m drawn to this paradox, the radical stillness of the human body within the vast, unseen motion of the planet.
Rather than documentation, this work leans into a choreography of trust, an unspoken moment between artist and participant to be still, exposed, and at ease in public space. The photographs hold a residue of that exchange, a trace of what it means to pause together, however briefly, in a moving world.