Walking the streets of San Francisco during my brief visit of just 6 weeks in California, I met very different people. Coming from a country with other cultural values"‹"‹, the thing that caught my attention most strongly was the lightness with which the people I encountered were expressing their individuality in public. External pressure seemed void considering that these people were fully manifesting their freedom to be themselves. However, I felt from them a strong sense of inner restlessness.
These images are about the feeling of anxiety felt by the typical inhabitant of San Francisco through the filter of a foreign observer. My intention is to describe the atmosphere felt on the streets, inside which the simple joy of being free seems adrift in the American Dream experience.
"We are condemned to freedom" is Sartre's conclusion after his attempt to describe the feeling of existential angst lived by the modern man.
