“During the lockdown, I began to develop a series of manual exercises to slow down my mind, occupy myself and avoid the negative daily news about the state of our current pandemic. This is a project about the value of walking, the materials surrounding us, and the impact they have on us.”

We have been dancing with ease for decades, on a Planet Earth that has its limits and showing this to us clearly, but we have turned a blind eye to its messages. We are pursuing a progress that leads us to the abyss, still we are always trying to run more! We need to stop dodging realities and present the planet new methodologies, materials and production systems that do not make us and our earth sick. What if progress means going back to the primitive?

This is an exercise with which I try to invite us to rethink our relationship with nature through the materials that surround us. How to preserve what our ancestors worked with and what we can take over in order to build new perspectives: how to walk and not rush, how to observe and learn. Not to blindly continue running, but understanding where we are going. And for all this, patience and presence is needed.

In this experiment I used the sandal as a metaphor for slowing down, as an object for walking and not running, making tangible contact with nature and my environment during this time, through the materials used, moving forward with my feet on the earth and with the rhythm that they allow us. We have never been able to run in sandals.