Altered States of Agoraphobia: New York City (ASA Postcards)

Monday, June 20, 2011

New York City (ASA Postcards)

Here are a few images from my recent trip to New York City. This is my second visit to this fabulous and beautiful city. NYC's continually shifting cultural Kaleidoscope of imagery came again as a great inspiration for me - almost to the point of overload, but I loved every moment of it. I will post more photographs from here later, along with images from the rest of this latest road trip when I have completed the writing I'd like to use to accompany it.

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Konrad RagnarssonJune 21, 2011 at 2:27 AM
Great Simon,like it very much!!
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Simon KossoffJune 21, 2011 at 7:28 AM
Thank you Konrad :-)
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About the photographs: These images are a search for a personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. They can be described as a collection of psychic coordinate points which I have plotted between the imagined America I brought with me from England and the real America I found on my arrival in 2008. These images are half truth and half fiction. They are a psychogeography, filled with personal symbolism and tangled with influences so old they were already part of me long before this journey ever began.

A note about the title:  The compulsion to travel, to move from one place to another, has been with me my whole life. Whether it be local, national or international, I have always found myself either in motion or, if not, I have been dreaming about it. Paradoxically, it has been in the periods of dreaming that Agoraphobia, (which Google defines as “Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult”) has gripped me and, at times, crippled me. These photographs are my continued (once secret) revolt against it in the United States of America today, despite recent quarantines.