‘Kind of blurry’ is the result of my long-time fascination about fading and unsharpness.
Blurriness is a very broad concept, since it refers both to physical conditions –such as lack of vision resulting from meteorological phenomena as fog– and to aspects related to memory, such as dementia. It is no coincidence that the English word ‘fog’ refers both to a meteorological phenomenon and to a mental state characterized by lethargy and confusion.
In an era marked by information, this project intends to be an ode to unsharpness: a reflection on the human being’s confusion and bewilderment; a return to experience, which both reveals and conceals the essence of things.
The thirst for scientific knowledge is the foundation of my project, it is fuelled by a love of observation and a deep curiosity about disciplines outside the artistic domain: it is an exploration, a search for enlightenment through science and literature. But ‘Kind of blurry’ is above all dedicated to the grey zone, it is an hommage to the blur itself.
This project, initiated in January 2009 and still in development, has led me to seek encounters with various experts who patiently shared with me their fields of knowledge. I thank them all for their inspiring contributions. This newly acquired information, a kind of crash-course in blurriness, leads me to make new video- and photography work.
My ‘explorations on blurriness’ presented here are intended to serve as a sort of cartography of unsharpness. Paradoxically, this cartography helps you to get lost. The navigation, which uses tags as unique points of reference, requires a non-linear reading. This website is the result of my incipient research; I invite you to dive into it.