Lake' is an experimental sketchbook, created using imagery shot solely with a cellphone camera, and edited in collaboration with audio artist Caural (Zach Mastoon).

The idea of random urban wandering is called a derive, and was a method used by Surrealists to create abstract mappings of the city. The psycho-geographical traces were, in this case, obtained with my cellphone camera, which were uploaded to a laptop and digitally animated. The production method was a self-imposed challenge, intended as a reflection on the notion of the flaneur, or urban wanderer, who now potentially occupies the informational as well as physical space of the city environment. I am fascinated in the notion of the cellphone as a metaphor for the externalization of memory, as a tool for communication, information retrieval, and image-making. The soundtrack, while digitally sampled and manipulated, evokes an atmosphere of nostalgia, further emphasizing a fragmented (or dispersed) identity of the observer.

The imagery was shot in several different cities (and in-between places) over several months, with certain visual compositions inspired by chapters from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities: "Memory is redundant; it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist."