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“Seeing into the Surface” is a poetic and photographic
unfocused narrative, thought to collect pictures and text
from a specific experience on a Youth Exchange Erasmus+
project - “Seeing Beyond” - held in Sudislav nad Orlicí,
Czech Republic, 24th March to 4th April 2024.
This work was only possible through the participation of the
author in the project’s experience, for which we are most
grateful.

The Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Seeing Beyond” was

Co-financed by the European Union.

This work thus functions as part of the dissemination

process, of which presents the author’s personal account in
an artistic perspective.
 “seeing into the surface
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Table of contents

Dasha ………………………………………………………………………………. 16
Vojtech ……………………………………………………………………………… 18
Vedran ………………………………………………………………………………. 20
Trajche ……………………………………………………………………………….. 22
Lucie ………………………………………………………………………………….. 24
Anna …………………………………………………………………………………… 26
Tymofii …………………………………………………………………………………. 28
Angela ………………………………………………………………………………….. 30
Filip ……………………………………………………………………………………… 32
Barbara …………………………………………………………………………………. 34
Gaja ……………………………………………………………………………………… 36
Andreea ………………………………………………………………………………….. 38
Simona …………………………………………………………………………………… 40
Ana-Maria ………………………………………………………………………………... 42
Vitali ………………………………………………………………………………………. 48
Viktoriia …………………………………………………………………………………... 50
Paul ………………………………………………………………………………………. 53
Bianca …………………………………………………………………………………… 58
Michal ……………………………………………………………………………………. 61
Denisa ……………………………………………………………………………………. 71
Olha ………………………………………………………………………………………. 86
Yasia ……………………………………………………………………………………… 91
Kseniia ………………………………………………………………………………….. 104
Maritchka ………………………………………..…………………………...………… 107
Jad ……………………………………………………………………………………… 117
Hanan …………………………………………………………………………………… 123
Samuel ………………………………………………………………………………….. 123
Emma …………………………………………………………………………………… 130
Rebecca ………………………………………………………………………………... 154
Miri ……………………………………………………………………………………… 167
Khatia …………………………………………………………………………………… 190
Ana ……………………………………………………………………………………… 195
Tamar …………………………………………………………………………………… 206
Mariam ………………………………………………………………………………….. 217
Ketsbaia ………………………………………………………………………………… 222
Giorgi …………………………………………………………………………………… 226

Acknowledgements …………………………………………………………………… 239

To see Dasha is to see a vision, not a mirage. Among the things
they have in common, is the fact that both can be taken to the
end. Unlike as arriving late, as in a mirage, seeing Dasha is the
opposite, it’s an anticipation of a future, it’s having a glimpse of
hope, a step-by-step plan to grow, a vision, an idea, based on
sustainable ground, on equality of emotion
Seeing Vojtech is feeling the presence of a human, not the idea of
one, but one in the flesh. We should strive to see Vojtech more
often. Only by seeing both the good traits and the flaws in the
human, will we acknowledge the human capacity to be better -
by being better towards others - Like the birds of Pala “here and
now, boys, here and now”
Seeing Vedran is more than politely greeting someone with the
eyes in another car passing by on a narrow street. It’s
recognizing the measures we take in life, the scales I use for
people, the moment in which I take a picture of someone else
and I recognize we can use each other
Seeing is like listening to Trajche. It’s said that we see to believe.
We hear to flirt with the truth, we listen to Trajche to know the
truth. We are massaged not because the flesh needs it, but
because the ego gets relaxed. Truth is seen before judgment,
seen in relaxation
Seeing Lucie reveals her eyes from the behind. When I see her,
it’s her personality I see, from the back, everything she is, except
the smile, which is implicit in the shyness
All say the brightest stars have the most intense lives, and
shortest. Seeing Anna is seeing the equally valid opposite
argument - the one for a long lived red small star that allows for
vulnerability, that, in other words, allows for a possibility of well
lived, wise life
I see Tymofii through a changing lens. Seeing Tymofii is always a
first time experience, and a at last moment assignment - it
changes the intensity of the beholder’s light - capturing the
impermanent, fleeting nature of his persona
We don't see Angela. Not because she doesn't exist, - she does,
- but because, like the shadow of a person, it’s hard to constantly
see our dark sides, our projections, my necessities, my
addictions
Seeing Filip is seeing the game beneath its surface, beneath
what it is, and beneath what a game should be - a play, an
amusement, a parallel abstraction of reality that should not be
taken seriously
Seeing Barbara is seeing Karma-Yoga in practice - routine taken
lightly. If I don't practice Yoga or Karma, Karma and Yoga will be
practiced by themselves
Seeing Gaja makes me realize that I can enjoy, take pleasure, or
appreciate that manual of instructions - or set of rules - that
nature has to offer. That I can even have a conversation with it,
not to change it, but for acknowledgement and practice
Seein Andreea is not listening to silence, is not like watching a
white canvas in a gallery. She’s not something onto what we can
project. Seeing Andreea is seeing her, and the justice of someone
else, someone external to me, with a very particular set of skills
Seeing Simona on the surface is not the same as seeing Simona
at first sight. The surface can reveal the inside. The inside can
reveal what the first sight wants to tell us. But the first sight at
first sight only shows what we already know
Seeing Ana-Maria is simultaneously a playful and demanding
exchange. I feel well in this dual interaction, for it calls for
creativity, ideas, and karmic action. In this playground, I learn by
seeing. I train for the future
I see in Vitalii freedom that wants to break out. The same
freedom I seek, which I’m more subtle to conceal. I’m so subtle,
that even the leading capabilities I see in me become prominent
in him
I see Viktoriia in full picture. Except I put too many filters, too
many sieving to see her completely. I see Viktoriia in my mind -
an imaginary Victoria that exists in the reconstructed details. I
hope she also reconstructs me
Seeing Paul is watching action, or non-action, which is itself an
action. Seeing Paul is fullness, action-fullness. It’s action-fullness
in dancing, and in non-dancing, it’s in cooking, and it’s in
non-cooking
Me and Bianca see each other in a mix of seriousness and
hedonistic fun. We see in each other similar words coming out of
our feelings, as if we were similar. We see the common points of
our lives in tender, vulnerable, open, receptive ways
Seeing Michal is visualizing the landscape of a dozen or more
places around the world through a precise instrumental
measurement of food that doesn't exactly taste the food. Instead,
it’s necessary to know Michael’s personality in order to taste it
I could see Denisa a million times, and realize only at the last
second how she looked back at me. She didn't look back at me
“that way”, but I wonder now, how do I see people?
I simply see Olha, which in Portuguese means “to look”. Not to
extract an information, or to make a condescending observation,
or even to learn a lesson from her. I look at her, side by side, as a
fellow human being looking at nature, in equal contemplation and
right
If I’ve chosen Yasia as the person I didn't interact much with
during the project it’s because I didn't take her picture first,
someone else did. Instead, she was the first of us two seeing, -
seeing me, - I was lost, I was found, and abandoned. I learned
something out of seeing her second, but maybe I was looking for
something else, like another fixed heart
I see Kseniia in a limbo state, a space between imagination and
reality. Even though I have multiple photographs of her, I prefer to
see her in person, in nature. Yet, in her presence, she is her own
flaming soul, - breaching is not an option. Love is not a war,
seeing is not touching, touching is not reconstructing ourselves
Seeing Maritchka is easy. She’s easy to understand. It’s easy to
comprehend her adultness, and it’s easy because she’s easy on
the eye. It’s also easy to see her beyond, because it’s easy to see
her motivation and needs. All this in her is easy, because for her
it might be hard. For her it’s and effort, and effort of looking easy
Who is this Jad-o person I see? An italian? An arab-speaking
lebanese? A libyan descendent? A brazilian boy from a favela in
Rio de Janeiro? A piccolo-basel hair football player? A dominant
macho dancer? A chess master? A joker? A social butterfly
effect? Or, a real person? What squares do I see in the picture
which I should press in order to confirm I’m not a bot?
I see in Hanan my feminine side, or, I see myself in her if I was a
pronoun she person. Or a woman. Or had I a more prevalent Yin
energy. (I repeat: a Yin ener… had I more…!) In truth, maybe I
haven't made peace with my Yang, - my entrepreneurial macho
persona, - to be seen by her as her masculine counterpart. Or
else, I’m too balanced for recognition

I see in Samuel, a friend. The friend. Someone distinctively

different of myself, and good enough to complement life. I see a
particular familiarity in the humor used to conceal the normal
pains, and normal pains that can rehabilitate us two
Seeing Emma is like watching an Akira Kurosawa film. It’s like
seeing a moving object. It’s using light, - directional energy in
photon form, - to acknowledge the more still, tangible things -
the passing of time, and the transformation of our personalities
Seeing Rebecca is continuously watching an adventure before
our eyes. It’s permeating our emotions with both adrenaline, fear,
calmness, happiness and a necessity for restraint and mutual
comprehension of the visited place
Seeing Miri is speaking of our own strangeness. My strangeness
is different of her own, and because of that, we have something
in common, which makes it perhaps, less strange. When I see
Miri I speak of a need for individual authenticity. When Miri sees
me she speaks of a mutual need and cooperation
To see Khatia is to see in 3 dimensions - her against a backdrop,
- to see her individuality within a broader context. It’s to see the
effect of a landscape in a community; a community in a
language; a language in a person; a person in a point of view; a
frame in a photograph; a photograph in a landscape. And to see
all of this, you almost certainly have to love something
I see vestiges of Ana before I see her. Like all beings, she
produces a surplus of details left in the environment to be caught
by an attentive eye. It’s not like mine is taking particular attention,
but it realizes some similarities between itself and her; or
between her and my own figures from the past. When I see her
reading, that becomes a very good topic of conversation into
which we can swim in the surface
Seeing Tamar is not the same as looking at, or staring at her. At
first sight she’s easy to look at, and hard to see. But, with a
continued view, she’s hard to look at, and easy to see. She
becomes so easy to see that we try to see past beyond her,
because seeing within can be hurtful. Hurtful to see at a distance,
a distance beyond
Seein Mariam is seeing eye to eye with her. Anything else is
irresponsible. She’s not a mirror, we are. If she’s good, we’re
doing something right. Seeing Mariam is seeing heart to heart.
Anything else is irresponsible. We are not a mirror, but if she has
the conditions to flourish, then we’re doing something right. If
she’s happy, we’re happy. If we’re happy, maybe she’s overjoyed
Different of gathering around a bonfire and look at it, being
entranced by it, mesmerized, warmed by it, - seeing Ketsbaia is
not so easy. For seeing her is to see life, and to see life is to
experience it, not passively passing by. Here lies the hard
question - how to be the fire without burning anyone, especially
another fire?
Seeing Giorgi is very similar as to have a conversation with him.
Having a conversation with Giorgi is like talking with a condensed
version of opinions from different people in a community, as if he
was their representative. On the other hand, seeing Giorgi is like
having a conversation with him. - I’d say, having a conversation
with his core. - But I believe he’s gentle enough and considerate
of the all community to curate his feelings when talking with me
… fin…
Ackowledgements
the organizers:
Dagmar Husárová
Vojtech Žak
the chefs:
Michal Filípek
Paul Dragos
the venue - Kubasova Chalupa:
Michal Kubasa
all the participants:
Ana Sitchinava, Anna Kmejčová,
Emma di Pietrantonio, Hanan Alkilani,
Lucie Kristínová, Mariia Opanasyk,
Trajche Shumkovski, Vitali Savchuk,
Ana-Maria Davidoiu, Angela Zhelkova,
Barbara Stojkovikj, Denisa-Maria Marin,
Filip Atanasovski, Jad Mahmoud,
Mariam Ketsbaia, Miriam Simonetti,
Samuel Zini, Tymofii Yerofieiev, Rui Lima,
Yaroslava Zaika, Andreea Paula Pitac,
Camelia Bianca Bilaniuc, Tamar Skhulukhia
Gaja Đukanović Babič, Viktoriia Dudii
Khatia Kipshidze, Mariam Saatashvili,
Olha Haidai, Simona Zdravkovski,
Vedran Andonovski, Giorgi Gorgodze,
Kseniia Leliakova, Rebecca Campanella
 partner organizations:
Czech INspire (Czechia)

Point-of-VYou (Romania)

Forward For Future (Ukraine)

European Nexus for Georgian Youth - ENGY (Georgia)

World of Change (North Macedonia)

TrailBlaizers Network Trapani - TNTEG APS (Sicily, Italy)

 This project, and resulting dissemination was
financed by the European Union