A refugee/immigrant Backbone

My  Backbon. The nine lives of a refugee/immigrant.

from my serie My Backbones.

Here are the shoestrechers which forms the backbone.

They are evoked in tendem with experiences of exile, immigration, dislocation and with nostalgia for a lost world.

My own histoty has been punctuated by voluntary and imposed migrations.

There is hardly a better metaphor for wandering than shostretchers, the most external facilitator of human locomotion, adjustment, changesand memories.

Very significant is the use of the color yellow. From early times through the inquisition and second world war, the color was used as the mark of the OUTCAST.  Next to my refugee/immigrant Backbone I allways keep a box full of shoe stretchers in case of....