In each image in this colorful series of twenty collages, Lachenmeier incorporates black and white photographs of anonymous people walking down urban streets, fragments of city maps, and bold typographic forms culled from signs, taxis, and storefronts. Each montage is superimposed with vibrant brush strokes, sometimes obscuring the constitutinal elements, but never obliterating them entirely.
A short essay (text in German and English) by Christian Platz at the end of the book explores the thematics of Lachenmeier’s work: “People chart their environment in order to find their way in it… People recognize a familiar street by its buildings, its trees, its shop signs. In contrast, a city map delivers an abstract world of forms. Which description of the world is more correct, more precise? We don’t know.”