Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory as Geomancy is a concept

as Geomancy is a concept taken very seriously in China that means “the art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously

one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences

accompanied by fragments of text that record the conversation they had with their driver

public spaces

full of unexpected details and potential metaphor

Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory as Geomancy is a conceptIn 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of language one visual, one verbal describing a sense of his new home.