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This ongoing work incorporates ritual and performance. Wasielewski goes to the London Eye across from the Houses of Parliament twice a week and asks a tourist to take her picture with Parliament in the background. By doing this, she not only relinquishes control of the photograph to someone else but retains the behind-the-camera presence of these visitors from around the world after they have returned home. This work is part of an ongoing theme in Wasielewski?™s work of using urban spaces in ways which they were not intended to be used in order to subvert pre-existing pathways and conditioned movements through the city. This repeated action is both atypical of Londoners??usage of the city and that of the tourists who frequent this location. The work additionally comments on Wasielewski?™s own uncertain nomadic status in London ??not a tourist anymore nor fully at home ??and explores notions of how certain accepted behaviours (such as asking to have one?™s picture taken) are location-specific. In a pattern typical of tourist areas within dense urban spaces, the turnover of people in the area creates an anonymity in which Wasielewski?™s action becomes a regular presence which is wholly unnoticed by the shifting population occupying the space.