One Glass Away from almost Flying
One Glass Away (from almost flying) plays with the fragile moment between staying grounded and taking off. The work is conceived as a diptych and developed from a performance created specifically for the photographic images: trying to learn how to fly with nothing but a body, a small glass and a little optimism.
The body balances precariously on the glass as if it were a tiny launch pad. The gesture is both physical and metaphorical—a clumsy but determined attempt to leave the ground. The glass becomes a point of departure, but also a reminder of how little it takes to lose balance. One glass can be the difference between standing firmly, feeling weightless, or suddenly seeing the world from a slightly different angle.
The title refers to that strange space between sobriety and intoxication, between control and letting go. One Glass Away can mean being one glass away from losing your balance, but also one glass away from the feeling that perhaps, just for a moment, you might actually fly.
The photographs capture this attempt rather than its success. What remains is a playful and slightly absurd physical experiment: a body testing gravity, balance and its own limits, caught somewhere between falling, flying and almost making it.
dyptich, 30 x 42 cm, diasec