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The Vicarious Experience Project
While spending a year in France, I undertook an autobiographical investigation into touristic experience, propelled by tasks and destinations in Paris decided by contacts in the US.

In these works, I am considering how one collects and manifests experience, what it is to be both a tourist and a resident, and how a network of people affects perception.

Read more at the Vicarious Experience Project blog.
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