ROAMING

“From my first conscious encounter with this city, I have always had an inquisitive attitude towards it. Other than my grandmother’s hand held walk around the block to the market or church in COOP, I vividly remember when I first started exploring Maputo, as the designated backseat passenger of my parents’ "Ford Laser”. I loved laying down in the back of the car facing up, and permitted by the windows (which were my screens), I watched the buildings of the city go by, 1 at a time or a whole neighborhood’s worth of them

at once, accompanied by Acacia, Pine and Palm trees in my new found screen. A screen through which I found a new game, the game? Mapping myself through the city by identifying the limited information I obtained through the Laser’s windows.

After gaining a passion for video and photography, I came to realize an unconscious attempt to relive my childhood experience, of looking at the tops of these quasi-brutalist yet colorfully contrasted buildings, identifying them and in the process locating myself within this dazzling space (Maputo). Bits of Maputo is my attempt at share that feeling I had as a child and challenging new perspectives of the city in order to raise more appreciation for it.”