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Bus Drawings / Reflections of a journey

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The bus has always been an indispensable phenomenon in daily life; except transferring passengers it enables them to meet and to communicate with each other. Bus journeys give people the opportunity to explore different areas or even countries, and therefor to broaden their mind. However, in Kosovo the bus has become a symbol of suffering, of challenge and hardship, of the search for a better and more secure life. With the one word, it has become a symbol of 'Migration'. 

Today this is of course a very topical issue, not only in Eastern Europe but in all European countries, if not all around the world.

The bus’s movement and it's route, in a precarious interplay with Jeton Muja's hand, has produced new visual compositions. 

Jeton has been conceptually attracted to this technique in order to record important routes, traveled by numerous people, from one city or country to another.

The concept addresses the experience of the traveler, the perpetual migrant who passes through stages of comforting familiarity and detached anonymity. 

The viewer has a chance to merge into one single perspective, a perspective which is defined by the one who is experiencing. This is the world of the perpetual migrant or cultural nomad, one where the self blends into the outer sphere and yet always leaves a behind a trace.