I was struggling to find a tool. Everything felt like just another object designed for the human body (either overly elitist, highly technical, or overloaded with funcionalities. So I started wondering, what if we used the body itself as the tool, as the work?
We tend to do everything with our hands and think of them as the most powerfull source for making. But then I started looking at my feet, the ones that have carried my entire body since I was 15 months old, when I first learned to walk with only two points of support.
I had practiced athletics and dance when I was younger, but when I got to university, I stopped. My feet were simply there to support my body. Recently, I started running and walking again, but my feet began to hurt a lot. Interestingly, the pain started when I began using my body again, to explore, to walk, to run… to really use it. We tend to dehumanize our bodies, yet they are some of the most powerful tools we will ever have.
The foot represents pain and beauty, freedom (with the hippie movement f.ex) and poverty. But it all started with a unit of measure, using the body itself as a way to determine our surroundings.
I started analyzing my feet in a physical way, paying attention to measurements and details, but also in a sensory way, by placing them in different environments.
My main objectives are to understand and explore the relationship between feet, objects and communities, and also how our bodies are transformed through their use.