Dumitru Sandu (researcher in the field of demography) sees migration as a continent, an archipelago, a hydraulic system in continuous movement. Our country has entered in a sort of third stage of migration, when five people per hour travel from Romania to very specific foreign communities. Sometimes members of the same family reunite, on a different land, but keeping the same customs and having the same cultural dynamics. Although they temporarily change the land, the behaviour stays the same. It seems that we are very resistant to cultural change. Romanian islands can be found all over Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, and many more countries, but they have a bigger influence on the local society than the local society would normally have on them.

In this video work, I am connecting the idea of an almost static body with the principle of geolocation and the idea of “home”. This video performance is a minimal one-channel piece, connecting my muscular tensed body in an imperceptible displacement, through a carpet of soil. The camera travels extremely slowly, creating a macro black-and-white bodyscape, while sounds from Planet Earth, recorded by NASA, can be heard. The tension of my body competes with the tension of the soil. A very dynamic, pulsatile movement sensation is created by using microtensions of the body, soil texture, and numbers, filmed with wide macro lenses.