In 2016, I placed 12 different self-written poems in the streets of Prague. After less than a week, I began to find other texts and comments that responded directly to the poems I posted. 

This started the very first dialogue between me and the city. 

That was the reason for me to start placing a several dozen poems in the public space of the city at the beginning of October 2021 — on traffic lights, trash cans or tram stops in the form of smaller stickers, in art cinemas or favorite venues in the form of posters and, last but not least, on rented billboards. I really tried to focus on the whole city as one of the fundamental aspects of my project is to prove that art should never exclude. This was also to further communicate my belief that poetry or art in general simply belongs to the public sphere. 

Each of these poems contains a QR code referring to a website, where each of the respondents has the opportunity to answer personal questions. It is also possible to upload files from your photo gallery on the web. 

I originally intended to implement this project in order to obtain unique insight that would help me build the core for the script of a film that I wanted to shoot as part of my master's degree. 

In the film, I wanted to focus on the anonymous intimacy and the boundaries that we set among ourselves as residents living in the same city. My idea was to connect with a few random passers-by through the poems in the streets and explore how deep relationship we will be able to establish without ever meeting in person or learning who we really are and what part of the city we live in. 

However, within just a few months, I managed to gather thousands of testimonies pointing to the uniqueness of each of us. It is an incredible collection of opinions from right to left, of all sorts of feelings, artistic expressions and thought processes. 

And although many of these statements I managed to gather from the people I share this city with hide enormous power, the greatest lies in all of them placed side by side. 

And that was when I began to realize that making a film at this point might be a bit premature. 

I began to wage a struggle between a strong and very concrete vision of the film and my inner voice whispering that if I made the film at the moment, I would most likely be deprived of another promising development of the project as such. Eventually, I decided to devote myself fully to the project as I knew that if I devoted enough time to it, it would reach a stage where it would make the film far more interesting.