"Le Tracce" is a Saharan journey into deep southern Algeria; a tale of

absence; of the lack of familiar references, and of spaces resistant

to signs of human presence.

The desert is sand which erases. In the desert, the disappearance of

traces is a perceivable phenomenon and the rarification of spaces; of

one's natural sense of distance and proportion, and of presences,

renders objects that have been abandoned precious, in that they give

expression to the traces of others' journeys.

Fleeting traces, fragile and incidental, but also

prehistoric; traces of the force of nature and of the passage

of time. Paved roads, dirt tracks, oil wells, shacks, street signs,

automobile and animal carcasses, graffiti and imprints

are artifacts which acquire meaning projected onto the depth of the

infinity of the desert and are assessed

before being swallowed by time. Traces which reaffirm themselves

indelibly in the soul when one travels at these latitudes, toward a

distant horizon.