We live in states that are neither here nor there, moving from one location to another. We perceive a sense of flux, of steady linear change from one moment flowing into the next. A series of stills in sequence can create the illusion of movement when riffled through rapidly under our eyes. It is the normal continuity of time, but what if these places we found ourselves in were realized to be a conglomerate of travel? What if they were not only ours, but those we have heard of and places we dream of experiencing? We would see location recollected.
Over a period of three years I collected images from my travels and those of others. When we travel we seek novelty and a playground for our curiosity. We are uncertain and free to adapt, but we still find our memories and world view in all, especially those we can only imagine.
" 'Try to understand what I paint and what I'm now writing. I'm going to explain: in my painting, as in my writing. I try to see strictly within the moment when I see- and not to see through the memory of having seen in an instant now past. The instant is that. The instant is of an immanence that takes my breath away. The instant is in itself imminent. At the same time that I live it, I hurl myself into its passage of another instant.'"
- Helene Cixous// Clarice Lispector: The Approach// 1979