For over a decade now, Tao Te Ching has been present with me wherever I’ve gone. The book traversed not only physical geographies with me but has taken me on a journey of meanings and immense depths of interpretation, mostly due to the fact that I took pleasure in always finding new translations, new interpretations and commentaries. At the same time, the year 2024 is one of immense changes in my life, full of closing chapters and new openings. This ever-shifting reality ingrained the need to express it creatively. I’ve decided to follow one of the simplest ideas I’ve ever had, namely putting together an ancient text of Tao Te Ching and my photography, shot on film in an ongoing effort to grasp a passing moment. TAO AND FILM is an album of eighty-one verses of Taoist wisdom accompanied by photos that resonate with the text. Although not destined to be published, created solely as a gift for my friends, TAO AND FILM opened up a certain new angle in my conceptual thinking, namely the idea of juxtaposing the tangible and the elusive, the timeless with the current, the world defined with words with the one captured on a photograph. I feel that the next step will be a more collective approach, rooted in fun and shared experience. Any ideas?