This series examines the interplay between herders, livestock, and the vast grassland environment, exploring how freedom and restriction coexist within both natural and social orders. Horses, flocks, herders, and dogs trace different trajectories across the expansive landscape: some are clearly defined by tools, ropes, or fences, while others move fluidly with the wind and open terrain. The contrast between static poses captured at high shutter speeds and the blurred movements produced through long exposure forms a visual metaphor for the dual nature of “freedom”—one grounded in the instinctive rhythms endowed by nature, and the other shaped by the subtle discipline of labour, systems, and observation.
These images are not mere documentation of pastoral life; rather, they place bodies, tools, wind, and terrain within a shared narrative framework, revealing both the vulnerability and resilience of individuals within immense spatial conditions. In the boundless grasslands, the subject appears small, yet through daily practices forms stable relational structures with the environment. The movement lines of animals and the modes of human gaze become evidence of how freedom is constructed, constrained, and negotiated at its boundaries.
Across the series, the flow of wind, the migration of groups, the rhythm of horses, the posture of herders, and moments illuminated or swallowed by darkness collectively articulate the tension between freedom, discipline, and the order of survival. What emerges is not a romanticised vision of the grasslands, but a power-laden space shaped jointly by institutions, tools, nature, and bodies—one in which freedom is defined, diminished, and continuously reclaimed.