Meditation has been a companion in my life for many years. I have been fortunate to learn from experienced teachers and to deepen my practice through encounters with monks. Labyrinth Orbit does not aim to document these experiences; instead, it seeks a visual language for them.
I follow the inner images that emerge in meditation—fragile, layered, half-conscious glimpses—and invite viewers to slow down, to linger, and to inhabit what they see.
Labyrinth Orbit unfolds quietly, in restrained gestures of slow transitions and subtle pulses of motion. Images gather, disperse, and recombine, expanding and contracting like a breathing body. I am drawn to the ideas of simultaneity and transition: a world of imagery in constant flux, never fully arriving, always becoming something new.
The video is grounded in countless photographs from my personal archive. Images made over many years using vintage and experimental lenses, combined with small snippets of moving image. These fragments form the raw material.
The work extends over twenty minutes, a duration that echoes the rhythm of many Western meditation practices. In its pacing, Labyrinth Orbit asks for attention and patience, encouraging us to witness the ephemeral, mutable nature of perception and, perhaps, to encounter a sense of stillness within motion itself.
Technical details: 720 × 576 (PAL DVD, Standard Definition); runtime 21:17 min; audio: single-channel. Single-channel projection. Optimally experienced on a CRT monitor.
Editioned as a limited DVD, accompanied by a 3.5-inch floppy disk containing a unique scene from the video presented as a GIF animation, a set of C-type prints with cardboard display mounts, all housed in handmade sleeves of reused cardboard and contained within a plastic Euro box (approx. 30 × 40 cm).
