Hello LMAC friends and the Hive community,
Today, I’d like to share a collage inspired by a simple experience I had a few days ago.
I was helping my father build a septic tank near our house. We dug the ground about two meters deep, and I went down into the pit to help carry some of the building materials.
While I was down there, I started to notice how different the world felt from that particular place. The walls of soil around me were quite high. The space felt narrow, and when I looked up, I could only see a small piece of the sky between the edges of the pit.
The sky, which normally feels so vast, suddenly looked very small.
For some reason, that view made me briefly imagine what it might feel like to be inside a grave. Not in a frightening or literal way, but more as a passing thought about what it would be like to be beneath the ground, separated from the world above, with only a small view of the outside.
The thought only lasted for a moment, but it made me stop and pay more attention to what was above me.
There was the sky, there were the branches, there were birds flying overhead. And somehow, everything looked different from where I was standing. That small experience eventually became the inspiration for this piece.
I wanted to capture the perspective of looking up from a confined space, a place that feels narrow, yet still has a small opening toward a much wider world. I used darker tones and dry branches to create the feeling of being surrounded by something.
When we find ourselves in a confined space, the smallest things outside can suddenly feel much more meaningful. Perhaps this experience also reminded me that perspective often depends on where we are standing.
The same sky can look completely different simply because we are looking at it from another place.
Maybe the same is true in everyday life. Something that seems ordinary from one perspective can feel surprisingly precious when we see it from somewhere else.
That is the small perspective I wanted to share through this piece.
Thank you for taking the time to see my work.
Image sources / Credits:
@bayuismail