
‘The ocean or the mountains?’
‘The mountains!' is something I would have said before.
I've discovered the ocean recently, and I've gradually developed my new topophilia.


*Stories behind the landscapes created by rituals, moods, motivations, hidden elements, sources of ideas, and everyday joy...

Nowadays, there are two lands on my mind. Known and unknown, old and new, passive and active.
They are both created by stories, traditions, and rituals, and they can be both poetic and rough. /Watching the sunset, looking over the horizon, jumping over the rocks, feeling of the wind, and legs in the fresh water./ One I grew up in, and one I have matured in.

As I grew up with a strong connection to the Czech mountains, I still consider them an important part of my personality. My mountains are associated with performance, endurance, and physique physical competence, but also with the strongest moments in my life, combining pure joy and freedom. Last year, I spent some time on the Portuguese coast, and it taught me a new affinity for a completely different environment. It opened hidden spots within myself and showed me a new perspective. This experience changed me and it also created a new part of my personality, next to the mountains.

Two landscapes represent two separate parts within myself. They are metaphors for my childhood and adulthood, for my home and the rest of the world, for the security next to the curiosity, for the rigid system and the open, emphatic society. The symbolic fight of two seemingly inseparable things in my life, which are still not able to meet at the same time. They need to be both present, but at the same time, they seem to be linked to the surroundings. I would love to open up the communication channel between them to let the energy and inspiration flow.
