The work is an artistic intervention in public space through which I explore the intersections of mental and physical space, as well as personal and shared space, within a collective public environment. The piece originates from moments of profound happiness I have experienced in urban landscapes, accompanied by music and movement—moments I longed to celebrate through dance, yet felt restrained by unspoken norms governing how one is expected to move in public space.
Through this work, I seek to stretch beyond feelings of self-consciousness and to share these moments with others in a carnivalesque way, within urban landscapes I experience as aesthetically meaningful. The intervention brings ordinary bodies into visibility and asks whose movements, expressions, and forms of joy are considered acceptable in shared space. By temporarily suspending everyday norms of behavior, the work opens a small pocket of spatial freedom, proposing public space as a site for embodied presence, shared experience, and spatial justice understood as the right to move, feel, and be seen on one’s own terms.