On my second day, I go to Ernaculam, where I photograph shoes, on a cobbler's stall, framing them with part of a poster advertising a political demonstration...
Later on, in a shop, I buy a few wooden toys, which get wrapped up in brown paper parcels tied with strings.
Back at the studio, I open one of the parcels and am on for a surprised 'hatching' of two figurines: a 'loop' man and a bird: an accidental fable? which I photograph...
To this day (Oct. 2007), the other parcels are still awaiting opening...
I spend the following days just walking around the antique shops and the warehouses of Jew Town, in Kochin, inhibited by the amount of fakes and copies I see...
Seeing a kerosene 'iron', in an antiques shop—displayed alongside antiques objects, on a glass shelf—is intriguing. Should I be worried that this is the sole objects that attracts my attention among a plethora of Antiques emporia...
I photograph it on its own, departing from my previous practice of staging objects before photographing them.
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