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New York City Notes

Carnet de Voyage / Travel Log

"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time."
                                                                                        Paul Auster

 

 Ideally that might be so, but memory can be a tricky and deceitful thing. When remembering details and scenarios can change. Keeping a travel log observations become fixtures, data for studying and interpretation, making the log a valuable tool.

 

 

 

 

"By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was."

 

"On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again."                                           

                                                                                                                                           Paul Auster

 

Being my first visit to New York City, it matters to me where I've been. Tracing my wanderings with the context of a tourist map (in the back of the notebook). I try to create a personal view of the city.

 





North west + east corner of Keap Street and South 4th Street, Williamsburg, New York