This video has a split screen. Both sides combine and establish aesthetic, spatial and conceptual connections between them.

The action takes place in a big bicycle park built over water, at the side of a train and bus interface station in Sweden. In such a place, it is usual to see people looking for their bikes among hundreds and thousands of them.

As is recurrent in his practice, the artist has produced artistic work out of his personal experience. He has himself spent many hours there looking for his bicycle. At some point, he started to record things on video and to interview other users of the bicycle park with a view on investigating their strategies resulting from local know-how. The title comes from one of these interviews. It came out that the users of the bicycle park label or make marks on their bicycles that they can later recognize and remember. In that way, what seems at a first glance to be a large mass of parked vehicles is in reality permeated by many small individual distinctive features. It is such small features that people look for in order to find their bike and leave the place to resume their everyday activities and to get back to their lives.

As the video goes on, the shots focus more and more on the behaviours and movements of people in their quest. The edition of the video turns it to a kind of choreography created out of everyday life. The action in the video – people at times lost, confused, vulnerable, looking for something that really matters in that moment - is a metaphor that works in many different ways.

The artist uses those “small marks” and a simple practical situation as the starting point for a reflection on identities and the relations between the individual and the collective, the private and the public, the self and the Other.