The following text was written for a possible commission for a similar project for the town Marseille in 1991 and summarizes insights in the phenomena of psychogeography as it slowly developed over the previous two decades. The Tokyo-Amsterdam project is a further detailing of the principles laid down in this essay.
Nothing looks any more like it was.
What has remained are fragments, scratches, traces. Tokens able to keep memories alive. The city is its own book, in which words and phrases are erased continually, pages, even whole chapters are torn out. New editions appear one after the other, with new chapters, annexes, supplements. Things from nature were put up just as they were found.