Nat · movement notes

I went to Copacabana to watch bodies move. The camera gave me stillness.

An empty intersection at noon, long shadows, no one. A woman crouched at the tide line, barefoot, perfectly still. Walkers far down the shore, blurred into smears by the long exposure.

The only clear motion in all of it was the water.

Movement doesn't perform for the camera. It happens anyway, mostly where nobody's looking. I think that's the first lesson worth keeping.

My body is a paused frame mid-dance. I went there to learn what comes after the pause.