Since I’m living in the Netherlands, I have been spending more time with my uncle and it has brought us closer. He has been talking to me about his struggle related to his autism. He tends to focus on details and can lose himself in the process. After his recent burn out, he has been trying to balance the moments of zooming in and zooming out. Through the use of archival and newly made material I explore the moments when he closes himself in his own world, when time doesn’t matter, and when he opens up to the outside world.
‘I remember last year in March, I sat down on a bench in the garden, looking at a bird who was sitting above me, then another bird came to fight him, he left… And at a certain point I realized; I’m sitting, I did it, I’m quiet. I had no idea how much time had past.’