Mind the Gap is a project that I have been developing over last two years. It consists of limited edition linocut prints, woodcut prints on canvas, performance and short video.

Project is a response to my commute between Balham, Clapham Junction and Kingston. It captures small (extra)ordinary details we encounter on our everyday commute.

While commuting most of us are trying to avoid eye contact, not being interested in people around, on contrary - trying to abstract oneself from the surrounding presence of fellow commuters, looking down, seeing only the feet. Feet, resp. shoes appear throughout whole project. I use them literally to draw attention to their wonderful details as well as metaphorically as a mean of transport from place to place, from past to future, from outside to inside or as a mirror of our own uniqueness.

I produced a limited edition of linocut prints based on sketches I made on train to Kingston. Prints draw attention to small details of different types of shoes, feet, distinctive feet positions and hence to distinctive personalities of fellow commuters. The video depicts the bustling atmosphere of a morning commute in which all those lovely details can be easily lost. A viewer is actively engaged in my performance piece that questions our perception. It presents different realities of a same object and makes a viewer to see his/her own feet from different perspective. While commuting I started to notice patterns people follow during their commute. The woodcut prints on canvas investigate uniformity of a mass where individual might be seen as a part of a group rather than unique person with its own story and values.