Nog geen eens zo lang geleden....It could have started with my boyhood admiration of John F. Kennedy who went to Berlin after The Wall went up. "Ich bin ein Berliner." Or, a copy of National Geographic magazine, with pictures of the divided city that I saved for years. Or much later, the films of Wim Wenders. Particularly, Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), in which two disaffected men travel along the East/West border. "The Yanks have colonized our subconscious," one of them says in the film. Whatever it was, I wanted to move beyond New York City as my primary subject, and do something that dealt with the larger issues of the day. After a number of months of research, I flew to Germany, rented a car, and began the project.