I seek otherness in mundane reality.
We all are other. Each day passing by is also another. We meet many people throughout our lifetime. Each human is different. All these things I wrote are cliche. Still, it is simply true. We can find much wisdom in banalities. Every time I walk in the same Warsaw streets, I seek otherness. What does it mean? It means I seek something otherworldly fragments in the mundane reality. Otherness means, in this case, something that seems to be based on another reality. Do I rock in the clouds? Of course I do. I have done it many times. I simply want to prove to myself that I do not need drugs and alcohol to find something “different” in the usual landscape of Poland’s biggest city.
I want to find magic in usual and dull things.
After all, everything we see came out of stardust. I believe there is no wrong time and place to take photos. Even if we are in the same place for the tenth time, we still can see this place as a new one, another. This is why I love street photography. I love it because I see in everything otherness. Even if I stare at the same tree for the tenth time, I can see it differently. Undoubtedly, it depends on my mood and the weather season.
Thanks to seeking something otherworldy in my surroundings, I feel like an alien who has just landed on Earth and is curious about everything he sees. I am curious about this place whenever I go, even if I know I am here for the tenth time. While writing about all these things, I realized (not for the first time in my life) that it is impossible to sightsee all the places on our magnificent planet. That’s why I simply focus on Warsaw.
