Travels

“Lords, Emperors and kings, dukes and marquises...” —Marco Polo

Marco Polo was an elusive character who’s travels to the East come into question. It’s possible he never managed to make the journey to the East but instead archived the stories he heard from other travellers into a book. He asks that we trust him and believe the things he had not seen first hand, but came to him from trustworthy sources. Who are we to believe?

I began on my own travels through Chicago’s Chinatown in search of something ephemeral, hoping the place could tell me something I knew not how to ask.