What is on our bed desk says something about ourselves and more even about each person from the Home of Elderly People. The project tries to visually represent the personality of each person in two ways, by what it has on his bed desk and by his own portrait.
The pictures are taken with the help of the seniors from the Home of Elderly people Antim Ivireanu, Calarasi, Romania, in April 2012
“I do not remember any kissing between family members as I was growing up. It wasn’t until my mother was hospitalized for eight months, unable to speak, that we began to kiss good-bye before I would depart for the day after visiting her. These newly discovered displays of affection were imbued with genuine caring and profound sadness as we both know she had only a short time to live. Our relationship in my mother’s final months inspired my photographic project, Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing.”
Gilda Todar was born in 1927 in San Mateo, California, and this is her first starring role. An avid moviegoer and bridge player, her favorite film is Sunset Boulevard. Like the fictional character she embodies in You & Me, she has her own exhilarating connection to the island country as a winner of the New Zealand Lotto. As a youngster, she had aspirations of becoming an actress and landing this part has inspired her to follow her dreams. In Todar’s words, “In my next life, I will pursue acting.”
Cei de la Experimentalist.ro m-au invitat să-mi las timpul acasă 4 zile și să particip la un experiment interesant.
“Ne-am propus sa va lucram neuronalii oblici. Ideea-schelet a noului experiment provoked by Grolsch este cum ar fi sa nu existe timp? Dincolo de lipsa unei ancore temporale, ce se-ntampla cu noi? Putem sa ne trisam bioritmul si succesiunea zi-noaptea? Si mai important decat atat, ce impact are absenta timpului asupra felului in care opereaza sinapsele noastre? Ce forme ia creativitatea noastra cand o dezbracam de timp?
Acum ca v-am facut curiosi, aflati ca Experience Hotel este un experiment care aduce la acelasi numitor toate aceste intrebari. 14 oameni creativi sunt scosi in afara timpului si pusi sa functioneze intr-un context in care nu exista limite temporale. Si da, este un hotel pe bune.”
Practic plec într-un loc, legat la ochi, unde nu voi ști cât este ceasul, nici dacă este zi sau noapte, nici dacă trebuie să iau cina sau nu. Mai multe detalii despre experiment, precum și rezultatele finale, le veți găsi pe site-ul gazdă: www.experimentalist.ro și pe Facebook.
“When we were kids, everyone wanted to be a doctor, astronaut, policeman or fireman. Well… they didn’t. Their DREAM was to become tourists or guests. They have been guests and didn’t like it… such that the ONLY remaining pylon in their universe, the saving hand, was to be… TOURISTS!”
Thank you: F64 and Canon for the camera, DPD for taking care of the camera to travel safe, gaben.ro for important things I’m sure and also to a website that you should have in your “photo-reader”: MAMIFER.