Somewhere in the flyway
Collaboration with Débora Caro Reyes | 2020 - 2021
Somewhere in the flyway is a publication made in collaboration with Débora Caro Reyes, a Chilean visual artist and photographer, for UAL’s Language-art project 2020-21. This was an exciting venture into an automatic writing exercise in the form of a dialogue exchanged between Débora and I, after sharing our collection of photographs in relation to the concept of psychogeography. It was particularly intriguing as we would sometimes interlace our second/native languages (I included some mandarin) which the other could not understand. The combination of both the foreignness of the language/culture the other brought, and the whimsical nature of the automatic writing produced something strange and surreal.
“The hand-bound book presents an instinctive dialogue between two artists, sparking from a collective archive of photographs taken of either a) an object, souvenir or b) a fleeting moment captured through the window of a car, bus, train. These fragments of the land reflect an exchange of memories that only exist in each respective language, attached to the time and place, untranslatable. In turn, an abstract space is created from the absurd mix - where there is true freedom in drifting along the flyway.”
