Artist statement for my end of year exhibition 2024

Wandering as meditation Kayla Linda Kasarherou BFA Hons Photo Media 34 Inkjet prints Various sizes 2024 Everyone can meditate. Waiting at a bus stop, in a small and quiet room, or during breaks. Meditation is known to make people more self-aware, focusing on the present, improving their mental and emotional health. It is accessible anywhere, to the point that meditation can be linked to wandering. That is, to wider explorations via walking. Meditation is where people do not know how to start, how to go about it, but as they start walking that is, meditating, they come to realise deeper meaning of their practice, and they feel enriched at the end. Wandering as meditation explores busyness and tranquility in the city. Going to different places without knowing where you are going leads to a place of being lost but at the same time being happy to get lost in order to be present. Feeling quite uncertain when moving around a new place you find yourself in and there is always some surprises. Through rambling, and living in the unknown, how can one know what will be the destiny of roaming? Wanderings are valuable and having doubts during the process is good, in order to remind ourselves that we are actually lost in our mind but also outside in the world. Wandering teaches you to let go and surrender, keep living in your incertitudes, because this is where richness sprouts.

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