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Monday, August 19, 2002

"Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe" was artist Gabriel Orozco's 1995 project. During a long stay in Berlin, the artist drove through the city on a yellow Schwalbe scooter. Whenever he saw another "Yellow Schwalbe" beside the road, he stood his own alongside it and photographed the pair, so that stasis and dynamics enter into a site-specific dialogue.

Thoughts induced in me by this. Whether the other Schwalbe owners ever knew their scooters were photographed, and if their scooters were at locations they weren't meant to be then. Was this a sort of reunion for the scooters since they could be from the same assembly plant? How many scooters did he manage to photograph? And if this project took place here and the Schwalbe scooter was switched for a Mercedes car, how frighteningly many pairs of cars would turn up then?

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