Le bateleur

The Fool in the tarot represents the conjurer. He also represents personal initiative. He can alter and play with images, a parallel to video which conjures images as well. In this instance, it records passersby in a part of town where neon and shop windows beckon consumers to stop and look. And it enables us to view the urban structures which displease a young man, whose preoccupation with a mirror evokes the tale of Narcissus.