MIRRORS

Mirrors is conceived as a fully local and participatory project, from the topic to the participants that make it happen and develop it further. The project duration is indefinite and will last as long as there is interest in participating in the regular publication of the new altered or “embellished” photos. An online photo library is created with copyright documentary photographs from Kumanovo, made exclusively for the purposes of this project, which mark the current state of the city, with no intention of adding artistic value. They reflect all the ugly, neglected, ruined, desecrated, abandoned, and uncared places around the city. The photographs are made possible for download, thus requiring the participant to choose one of the featured photos to edit in the program “Microsoft Paint”. This program has been chosen for its availability, ease of use, and obviousness of the intervention. The task assigned to the volunteer reads: Add, paint over, cross, strike, doodle over, embellish (…) the city Kumanovo. Finally, the edited photo is sent back to the author of the project, which merges the two works next to each other, a before and after.

The purpose of this project is not only to document the neglected and ruined parts of a common home called Kumanovo but the ruined, dirty, uncaring state of the human spirit. Making the obvious visible from the eye of the author, through the eye of the lens to the eye of the citizen-artist, Mirrors exists as a mirror of the physical and the psychological.