How, then, to begin?

The major everyday experiences of the city
in a minor key.

It is easy to see
how mobility is marked by borders.



[Deleuze and Guattari: “Producing machines, desiring-machines everywhere…”]

To think, we are defeated by the image.



To think, we are waylaid and beaten.



Anyway, how does one think on the streets of Hong Kong?

With enchantment of skyscrapers.



With a law of crossing streets.



To think, it is possible to retreat to our homes



and dream of new lines.



But I am a desiring-machine.



Vulgar and beautiful,
I am commerce and poetry.

I am an Oedipus-machine.

I am in a corner, in a spotlight,
a footnote beneath billboards and signs.

[Deleuze and Guattari: “Producing machines, desiring-machines everywhere…”]



I am a quotation.

To consume, I eat photography.