2012, Mar. 18th

 

I walked around at the neighborhood that I lived at that time, asking people who seemed to wait for something (people or transportation) or to stay on a same spot, that if I could trace out their shadows. After getting their permission, I traced out their shadows by chalk, marked out date and time, and wrote down where they were going or what they were waiting for.

 

Around the same period of time, my friend Chris and I sometimes hanged out in front of a soup kitchen run by a church, trying to talk to people who went to the soup kitchen. Chris told them about my shadow-tracing project, and asked them if I could trace their shadows.

 

That’s how I got Moe’s shadow. He taught Chris and I how to introduce ourselves in Japanese. Instead of writing down where he was going, I wrote down what we were doing. There was no place he had to be, and it seemed that he was fine with it.

 

There was something got my attention later: there was a difference between Moe’s shadow and the other people’s shadows. From the traced-mark, I figure out that other people don’t carry their properties all the time like Moe does.