Artist, Gabriel Orozco: When I was spending a year living in Berlin I used this Schwalbe as my motorcycle. And I liked them, and they were very popular and just very easy to go around in the city with in these little things. And every time somebody else has the same Schwalbe motorcycle, which was a kind of vintage from East Germany, people was waving at me "Hi, hi" like friendly gestures, you know, with people. So I thought, well, it’s funny, that.
So I just take my bike and go out with no objective, but just to find another one. And it was perfect just to get to know the city, enjoy the landscape, be outside. Every time I found one parked—because I was not interested in meeting people I was more interested in finding these motorcycles—I parked my bike next to the other one, and then took a picture of them, together.
I collect forty images of forty encounters of my bike with another yellow Schwalbe and then, I display them all together, the forty photographs. Some of the photographs are inverted, so they are always pointing from left to right. I think that also, we can think of the city as a grid. And, my actions in that city are a way of indenting into the city, or generating accidents.