I felt the challenge that implies live in a new country or move into a new city hoping that moment where you can find a place to be called home. I discovered that is a very common thing for most people, specially in the context of the current economic crisis, get used to be ready to move to a new place quite often. Crisis doesn't discriminate if you're young or old, healthy or ill. Most of these visual references are all about the relationship we develop with –or against- the places we live in. It’s all about real life, it’s about how exposed we feel even in our 'own' place and how fragile we are as individuals within this society; and how can we read our virtues and failures throughout the appearance of one single temporary room. These images can also be taken as a social mirror, a personal projection, since most of them are either immigrants –like me– such as students, embryonic families or even newly couples, all temporarily living in a provisional housing or even in a short-term relationship, loneliness or getting ready for a final goodbye. The moments of quiet observation I've spent with them made me considered them as ‘my neighbors’ even though I know they aren’t for real.
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