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A project that is bigger than me.

A way to infiltrate the city.

To create and build exchange.

A shared umbrella of ‘alternative tourism’, throwing away the guide book, experiencing a place for what it is, through the filter of a person – a host, but not a guide, a friend.

I walk with the people I meet to fill the streets with conversation.
To aid memory – fixing words to places.
To encourage pondering thoughts.
To allow silence.

I have made Conversation maps. The spoken lines linger around places, floating just of a street name.

Strangers in a strange city. Another blank canvas – a new relationship.

For fresh eyes

New stories, histories, lies, answers, questions
So you are writing a book? What are you looking for?
She said this and he said that they are both wrong he says it’s like this.
Different backgrounds. Time periods. Circumstances.
“So you are gathering samples? Yes?”

In the evening, at lunch, in a museum, a cafe, a street, usually a metro stop…reaching the top of the elevator transforming a photograph into 3D…bald head beard bald head beard bald head bead brown eyes.

Odeon at 2pm

Hotel de Ville at 1pm

Abbesses at 10pm

Academically speaking, I am investigating conversation as research and walking as a research tool.