"Codes & Numbers"
I developed this project given my special interest in relations to signs to their surrounding space (landscape), as well as the change of meaning of symbols under the influence of time - or other influences.
Mexico is in this context very special because it’s billboards are -in this case - written over with numbers several times –the numbers are phone numbers - to show that the spaces can be leased for announcements. This is a fact well known for insiders – but for the others they look like codes.
The view of the billboards is only possible from cars driving past them; which means that it is a type of photography specially made in to be seen by cars in movement. The goal is to “sear” an idea or image into peoples’ memory; like numbers inside of a labyrinth: the labyrinth of one’s mind.
A person selling his goods might ask himself in passing by, if this is the best place to offer his goods. Will it stick into people’s minds?
Other projects that are related to this theme that I am developing are:
"Left-right Faces" a work in progress since 1988 in combination with series of photographs
"The Intelligent Labyrinth"
ARIADNE PROJECT based on "Surfaces": In visits at different but very important art locations - a series of photographs of unexpected looks in these spaces.
"Minotaurus Project" that is based on the idea of the search for an orientation. I began the "Minotaurus Project" a year ago, as a series of photographs that offer signs inside a labyrinth, that should allow for a successful search for the way to an exit, (a way out of the social mesh-social labyrinth).
The Inner Labyrinth / The Intelligent Labyrinth
One should note that labyrinth is the name for the inner organ of the ear that gives human beings the sense of balance.
Orientation: The eternal search for freedom and a constant hoping to find one’s way out of the enclosure. Where to? Only into oneself. To me what is interesting is the deciphering of the codes, for instance of a city quarter on the basis of portraits of people’s, lives and work (points of unconscious orientation)