“I Was Here” is a project about the human need to leave traces — to declare one’s presence as an attempt to initiate contact. At its core lies the gesture as a form of connection: with others, with the world, with oneself.
The inspiration came from the story of a prehistoric person who carried a stone for many kilometers to place it in a cave on a mountain — simply because the stone resembled a human face. This symbolic act reflects the timeless need to connect, to say: I exist.
My two “stones” in the project resemble a wave and a heart — symbols of external and internal movement. Movement as the rhythm of life, as the impulse that generates presence and contact.
