"Choose the season & the time. Gather together the right people, the best records & drinks. Lighting and conversation must of course be appropriate, along with the weather and your memories." - Psychogeographical Game of the Week, Potlatch, 22 June 1954
more... "Depending on what you are after, choose an area, a more or less populous city, a more or less lively street. Build a house. Furnish it. Make the most of its decoration and surroundings. Choose the season and the time. Gather together the right people, the best records and drinks. Lighting and conversation must of course be appropriate, along with the weather and your memories." - Psychogeographical Game of the Week, Potlatch, 22 June 1954
In psychogeography, a dérive (French: [de.ʁiv], "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, directed entirely by the feelings evoked in the individual by their surroundings. It describes the effect a geographical location can have on the emotions and behaviours of individuals, which emphasises playfulness and ‘drifting’ around the environment.
For ‘maybe i should be sitting right here’ i photograph these wanderings through familiar environments in Ireland, and compare them to photographs taken in surroundings i am experiencing for the first time. It is a study of both connection and location, and using these as a means of identifying oneself more closely.