lara "we should smell more"

The work unfolds within this difference,

where direction is not imposed, but discovered through (co)existence.

We do not know where we are heading.

We do not know whether we want to go there, should go there, or need to know the destination at all.

Perhaps we do not need to know.

We simply orient ourselves toward what we sense

through smell, sight, sound, and skin.

Direction does not precede us; it emerges from perception.

This work explores the moment when direction comes into being, rather than a fixed goal.

Ants live within precise systems

pheromone trails, assigned roles, invisible rules.

These unseen structures create boundaries

that organize their society.

I began to see in them

a reflection of our own worlds:

the distances we keep,

the roles we inhabit,

the silent agreements that shape our relationships.

Somewhere in their nature,

I felt something deeply human.