Category: cities
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unexpected encounters #6: exit
The error of the Surrealist militants was to imagine the surreal to be something universal, that is, a matter of psychology, whereas it turns out to be what is most local, ethnic, class-bound, dated … Believing that the images they sought came from the unconscious, whose contents they assumed as loyal Freudians to be timeless…
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unexpected encounters #2—imaginary, symbolic, real
The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real are an unholy trinity whose members could as easily be called Fraud, Absence and Impossibility. Wikipedia, “The imaginary (psychoanalysis)” 2.1 cool yourself together. London, July 2001 For Lacan, the driving-force behind the creation of the ego as mirror-image was the prior experience of the phantasy of the fragmented…
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Brick Lane, 2018 #2
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on April 27, 2018.
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Brick Lane, 2018 #1
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on April 27, 2018. Joe’s Kid Café had now become Pho Village,…
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window shopping #7 (Prague +)
All images shot in June 2004 in Czech Republic. Location is Prague unless otherwise indicated. #4 + 5 Karlovy Vary #2 Mariánské Lázně, #6 Karlovy Vary #2 Karlovy Vary