Nowhere Living

On March 6 last year I began my experimental life project “Nowhere Living”. It’s about exploring being present anywhere in a perpetually changing world with fewer things and more experiences. I want to challenge the standard industrial narrative where we must be tethered to one place, one job and one person. A life of routine, security and status quo.

It begun as a need to let go of things, beliefs and people and has turned into an art project where I explore relationships, human connections, intimacy, authenticity and love. For the first time in my life I feel really alive and present, living truly in the moment.

I recently decided to give my project a name — “Nowhere Living” — as I live across the world, staying in not one but several houses. I’ve learned to separate living from a physical place or the ownership of a house. That’s just a mental construct, an external collective perception of what the collective society wants me to believe. It’s not in my nature, I think.

When I share how I live life I get thousands of questions, mostly out of curiosity or fear. I often need to remind myself that those questions are a representation of what goes on in that person’s mind and is unrelated to my journey.

I’ve started to write down my learnings, reflections and personal insights with the idea of them one day becoming a book. I first thought that it was going to become a practical guide to how to use technology well in the 21st century or how to thrive as a global nomad.

I’ve recently through several discussions with all of the amazing people that I’ve met during this journey understood that in the context of human history this goes beyond the obvious. This is a journey of exploring a new world enabled by technology but driven by the universal need for finding the true self.

In the true spirit of existentialism I’m exercising my freedom to explore and live life to my choosing, something that I feel we have forgotten as we are living in the shadow of consumerism, the collective opinion and fear of the unknown. I’ve chosen to look at the world as blank slate where I can use any color or stroke to paint the world however I like. It’s a fucking rad experience!

A free mind is a beautiful thing. Never let anyone else control it.