Nowhere Man Nowhere Land
By Agung Nugroho Widhi
4 October 2007
These photos were my project, which I had done for around a year. Just consider this as photo of a journey, a holiday picture, going somewhere while took pictures of something that I found, an artificial journey, or whatever.
The pictures of buildings or places, which I met almost every year, the street that I might pass every day. "As my friend said when I showed these pictures, whether he was serious or not, he said, "you seem going somewhere far away". Yeah (I said in my mind that I agree and felt the same thought with my friend), but anyway, I feel that I'm going nowhere...I'm still in here, in this place, I'm just suddenly in those places, which are quiet, peace, something that I always like." Why? I don`t know. Maybe I just see what I want to see, or The Beatles? I don`t know....still.
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have the point of view
Knows not where he is going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
................He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see...
Nowhere man can you see me at all
This photo series was captured in random time, place and it had no plan before. Then, those pictures were sorted as if those were a documentation of a journey from point A to point Z. Seeing those ordered pictures, instead made us think that it was point A but actually it wasn't, might be it was point G to the point Z, which it was indeed point Z. Just imagine how a state official son or even a sailor who often moves to one place to another is asked where he comes from? Of course, there's an answer for that. But might be, he would answer that because he didn't care of it.
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