America, Love it or Leave it
art book, 2011
Travel diary structured as a mosaic of histories, daily culture-shocks and discoveries of “America” phrased in 8 chapters. The book is enriched with pictures and scans of receipts from the road trip through the USA.
The first page of each chapter begin with a centered red stripe stating: dates, cities and the following quotes found (heard) in the public space of each particular place:
1. Baltimore MD
If You Are Ugly Learn How To Dance and Make Love
2. Panama City Beach FL
Show Your ID Card If You Appear Under the Age of 40 If You Want to Buy Tobacco or Alcohol
3. New Orleans LA
One Day We Will All Be Europeans
4. Phoenix AZ
Fear Eats the Soul
5. Los Angeles CA
Beautiful, Sad, Poetic, Peace
6. San Francisco CA
Stop Searching, Start Saving
7. New York City NY
If You See something, say something
8. Baltimore MD
If You Don‘t Like Where You Are, Then Change It, You Are Not a Tree
.photos courtesy of Peter Kreibich