big city

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the shopper digital print

To many it is considered a recreational activity in which one visits a variety of stores in search of a suitable product to purchase. Window shopping is an activity that shoppers engage in by browsing through glass windows of a shop for entertainment. The browser might try on the items or imagine purchasing these items without actually purchasing, possibly just to pass the time between other activities, or to plan a purchase.
To some, shopping is a task of inconvenience and vexation. Shoppers sometimes go though great lengths to wait in long lines to buy popular products as typically observed with early adopters shoppers and holiday shoppers. Sometimes buyers feel ripped-off because they did not get what they paid for often asking for a refund. Sometimes shoppers get caught up in a scam.
More recently compulsive shopping has been recognised as an addiction. Commonly referred as compulsive shopping, shopping addiction, shopaholic or formally oniomania, these shoppers have an impulsive uncontrollable need to go shopping to get a rush or high. Some people, in order to cover up their addiction, call shopping "retail therapy."
-wikipedia

and some of us shop for what we need

inspired by the masses thronging through the streets of big city tourist destinations of Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels

how much is there to shop for when you don't need

context

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just one part of a work in progress
though now it might have to go a different way
although I still have to complete the intital piece
oh...where to go
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cacophany

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a jumble of visual pollution
a mess of style and proportion
a sea of potential awash in architectural statement
useful? good? beautiful?
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travel

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travel – verb

1. to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure
2. to move or go from one place or point to another.
3. to proceed or advance in any way.
4. to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
5. to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.
6. Informal. to move with speed.
7. to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
8. Basketball. WALK
9. to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism
10. to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
11. to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.
12. to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.
13. the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.
14. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels.
15. the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.
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and for what

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I went to a place but didn’t get a chance to explore
I thought I missed something so I planned to go back
I went to the same place a second time but in another part
I thought I missed something so I planned to go back
I went to the same place a third time and explored
I found that I missed nothing and if I keep planning
for what I am missing then I am missing what happens while I plan
I was missing everything while planning for nothing

for these images
amsterdam august 2008

where does reality start?

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structure I digital print
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acceptable, conventional, traditional, standard, regular

synthetic, fake, manufactured, contrived

mockery, parody, burlesque, artificial

fantastical, imaginary, visionary, surreal, abstract

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faith

de lijn en de vogel digital print (detail)

as in belief -
conviction, feeling, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, sentiment, view

as in trust -
what you do, where you go, what you see, what you find, how you use it

as in reliance -
confidence, credence, dependence, loyalty

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more from the park
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inspired by cuban surrealist Lester Campa and a conversation about quantum physics and life and death at the same moment, definitions, transitions, maybe even Lissitzky's "proun"
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it's just there
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