1917, untitled #02 - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Souvenirs are not unlike passports. They are more than just a thing, image or text. They are something you bring when you go somewhere. So they have a lot to do with a moment of passage. The passport allows you to pass into another country or prohibits you from doing so. The souvenir is what you take with you when you return from your travels. It shows that you passed through another country in the past, and thereby opens a passage in time back to the moment when you passed through that passage in space that your passport opened up. It shows what came to pass. And it permits you to pass that memory on to someone else, to the person to whom you give the souvenir as a present — or to the person, a stranger maybe even, who, perhaps entirely by chance, comes into the possession of the souvenir after you have passed away, leaving him or her with the evidence of a past passage, of which it might not even be clear where it led, but of which it can safely be said that it was undertaken. What to do with such a souvenir when you come into its possession by chance? Can the passage, once undertaken in the past, be repeated in the present? The place to which the passage led may after all still be there. What if that place were where you yourself live now? Then the souvenir is a door that leads to where your home is. It stands wide ajar. You recognize what it shows because it is where you are. But, even if you know you know the place the door opens onto, this still gives you no guarantee that you could actually pass through the passage in time and re-enter the place as it once was. In fact that place may have changed so much during the time that passed since the door was last opened, that the door no longer leads somewhere but nowhere, really. It's the weirdest thing when a souvenir, precisely because it evokes the past of a place so effectively, affects you with a sense of not knowing whether you can ever return to the place in the past in which you presently find yourself

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:39.4 W x 53.1 H x 0 D in

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