The Senses Cheat You Day and Night

2012 - Video 13’16’’

photography: Mie Cornoedus

On a trip to India I came across this quote by Swami Vivekanada: “The senses cheat you day and night”. This provocative thought about sensory experiences and reasons and how we perceive them, is what inspired us to ask people we met on our trip to write down this sentence. The repetition of this writing and experience of this repetition is translated in the video editing, in which the actual meaning of the sentence blurs and changes into an an abstract contemplation.