The "Tracking Project" investigates the recognition and gathering of trace evidence which is perceived, sometimes even inadvertently and subconsciously, and that exposes the bias and direction of a culture's migration. This dispassionate accumulation of trace invests a Tracker, as with a guide, in support of their unique temporal voyage that occurs within this mass movement.

The Tracker is not anxious but is aware, not suspect but attentive, is silent yet present. Simultaneously, a Tracker carries the acknowledgement - maybe blasé - of a regard for the inevitability of consciousness, of the impotence of control and of the curiosity toward an objective. Not so much acquiescence, this acknowledgement proposes the acceptance of a question around the relative importance of one's negotiation toward death. It begs the presence for the super real, extra-durational instant and broaches the internal dispute between one's appreciation of wonder and the enduring threat of its potential homicide.

The intent of this component of the "Tracking Project," Tracking Identity, is to capture and identify the visual characteristics of the facial profile of everyone in the world. The act of profiling has become ubiquitous in this contemporary world. And this is just one more attempt to accumulate a record of everyone present.

It is hoped that through this process of accumulating and disseminating a multitude of visual identifiers, it will be recognized that the visual difference between individuals, and hence all other personal characteristics, is seen not only a distinction but is also part of a visual spectrum.

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