The 15 steps started by chance and luck. It was supposed to be another project, where I just intended to register Augusta Street (in São Paulo, Brasil) decadence. So I took test photos with Fernanda Monte Claro (my partner) and, when I ask artist Rafael Lain his opinion, his answers showed me other possibilities. And I changed the course of things.

 

Since 2013 we already did 6 paths: the Augusta Street in São Paulo (Brazil), the Brooklyn Park in New York, the Toque-Toque Beach (São Paulo, Brazil), the Tristán Navaja Fair in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Praça da Matriz in Pirassununga (São Paulo, Brasil) and the Minhocão (São Paulo, Brazil), an elevated motorway which closes on weekends for people to enjoy it.

 

To finish, a text writen for some friends to describe the 15 steps idea:

 

The experience of belonging is full of frustrations and adaptations. The memory connects events and places. “I was there when it happened.” The memory connects people. “I was there with HER when it happened.” The memory needs support, something for which to hold. The idea of belonging is linked to the act of revisiting events, people or places. The city is changing par excellence. All that is raised will be or has been dropped, reformed, coated. The human urban movement interferes with the look, as well as the actions of nature (light, the rhythm of the waves, the wind unstable) transform scenarios.

 

The biggest reference that remains is affection, the one that walks beside me, testifying with me my change and the landscape. He is my reference point and I his. It’s the other as plaque, facade, park, building, monument. If these images repel the idea of movement, the 15 steps streamline the role of the other in friction with the obstacles of the city, of the path.

 

Each 15 steps is the route of the couple depicted in the context of changes in space, interference, point of views, and the very “other”. (Minon Pinho and Marco Del Fiol)

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Ronaldo Miranda, 2016