IN STEREO

I don’t stay a lot in the village. The days I don’t work, I go out. I go to the evacuated areas. I go with my friends, and we take tents and stay there. So I spend most of my time in nature and I discover places. Mostly, I like sitting in areas like where we’re sitting right now, or other mountain lands, looking at the village. I don’t know, I feel inspiration for work comes [because] I don’t see things in parts. From far away, I start reflecting on things that I didn’t see up close, so I get other ideas. On top of that, the noise – the shouting and people and cars, they ruin my ideas. And there are people sometimes who discourage you when you stay with them. So I like to stay by myself because I feel that I can generate something.

I mean, I spend most of my time going to work and to university, then to the village, so there’ll be a lot of pressure on me. All my thoughts are blocked. But when I go to these kinds of areas, that’s it. Something happens with me and I find solutions, and I even see new work. You’re inspired by nature. I don’t need to be on site to know our situation, because we are living it. When I go to nature, I start thinking about what’s happening to us and why we are like this, and why it’s allowed here, and why it’s forbidden there. And why these areas can’t be approached, why there are borders… I have ideas when I sit with myself. – Mohammad