In Byron Bay, daily life is marked by a simple yet profound habit: walking barefoot.
What in most places feels exceptional here becomes the norm, shaping daily life in supermarkets, cafés, banks, and streets. This collective gesture, rooted in surf culture and countercultural traditions, signals both freedom and belonging.
More than spiritual “grounding,” it is a radical intimacy with the world, the body exposed and integrated with the terrain it touches.
This project explores how such a minimal practice can become identity, culture, and metaphor for community and connection.