This series of photographs began as a travel work in August of 2006.   There are ten images total in the series.  Images were taken in Prague, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Haulien, and Taipei.  The clothes used in this work were found discarded in the streets and outdoor public spaces of each city.  The primary motivation of this work was to create tableaux that assembled repeating but variant relationships to absence and memory, between two people or between a person and a shifting topography.  On arriving in a new city often my first intention is to get lost.  Get lost from a dominant given route and from pieces of my own memory.  To look for a story of clothes, touch of city and skin, the resonance often to remain in pieces. Discarded.  Left behind. The people who wore them that I do not know and are now absent.  I begin somewhere here as a wandering point of contention with pieces of urban anonymity, loneliness, and recognition.  Images rest inbetween, lost and found, the finding and the losing, the weight of memory, wind to a flag or a kite, and the slipped trace.  With a cartography of questions, I take to the road.  Why do I travel?  Why do I pick up and wear these clothes?  From discarded, what movement holds one’s body, what release can be found in movement?
 
 
 
- Isak Immanuel
 
X :  
here,
incorrect,
multiplied by,
a vote,
unknown,
unnamed,  
...a kiss.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vêtements -  Paris, France  -  La Seine River
TABLEAU CITIES text CLOTHES x SUN
( tableaux for disappearance )
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