Because of the recent lockdown, I managed to closely observe how winter turns into spring, and not on a temperature level only. The window in my bedroom allows me to follow a colour change of the Eucalyptus tree leaves, from evergreen to dark olive within a few weeks, with mustard colour tips, emerging from just days ago. The garden is richer for two crows, few pigeons and a bunch of, to me, unfamiliar birds, that exchange throughout the day in even intervals. The grass is definitely greener and is losing greyish hues from the tips while the sun shadow of the building's edges, gutters and chimneys is visibly relocating from the original position, every other day. The wind I let enter through window every morning after waking up is not as aggressive as a month ago and is starting to feel more like summer, coastal breeze.

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In the past few weeks I've been experimenting with a paper and a punched hole, and what are the abilities of the human eye for details and attention through a limited, channeled medium. I focused on the skin in all forms, as a theme of the proposed work I called Behind the Punched Hole. Attention towards nonhuman (and equally human) objects that surround us, is again, a 'triple O' notion, and within this investigation, I'm exploring three well-known objects – human, tree, and shoe, and focus on their skin, and not only through a visual representation, but through a sound as well. Their sound is an important element in this project. We all know how leather shoes, tree leaf, and human skin on a hand look like, but their sounds are sometimes less audible to us. In this short film, the sound of leaves, human skins, and leather shoes are accompanied by their visuals through a punched hole, focusing our attention on a combination of sounds and associated materials and textures. As part of this exploration, I see the produced sound as an object, and not only a mere quality of an object we usually only perceive visually.