I will try to explain how to slow down artistically in today’s post (I wrote it on the 18th of January, 2024).
There is ostensibly nothing unique and spectacular about my pictures. Contrary. It is, indeed, the point of my artistic activity. By photographing and presenting mundane reality, I want to slow down my and the viewer’s impatient gaze. I have a contemplative and reflective attitude towards all my creative doings. Living in big cities like Warsaw is often in a hurry and rush. I accepted it, but I found my own method of how to slow down. Street photography is a critical point in this issue. While walking, I often contemplate many things. Or, I try to turn off my thinking and just enjoy the present moment, that I live here and now.
These are moments when I do not overthink past times or do not plan the future.
Does that matter something that had already gone off or something that can never happen in the future? Isn’t the only thing that should matter is only present moment? I believe so. It is also another reason why I photograph many mundane things. I suppose that hundreds or even thousands of passers-by do not pay as much attention to trees, garbage, street lamps, or cracks in the wall as I do.
Contemplative, reflective, and mindful photography is the key to how I slow down in a hustling Warsaw’s surroundings and how I want you, my Dear Friend, to slow down in your life by watching the usual items we can all face while wandering in metropolises. I know that within the next few days, I will be able to walk and do street photography of winter scenery in Warsaw. I am simply happy with that. I wish you, my Dear Friend, to slow down and enjoy your life in the present moment.
