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Kristopher Shi's practice begins with a particular mode of attention — one shaped by years of moving between geographies without fully settling in any of them. For the constantly migratory, place is never fully inhabited. It is always being read from the outside, registered before it can be forgotten. What accumulates is not the coherent sense of a neighborhood or a city, but something smaller and more stubborn: numbers, signs, words — granular details that anchor experience retrospectively, webbing fragmented memories into a personal geography.
Boulevard, The Word We Got Used To then emerged from Kristopher's first year living in Los Angeles, which he spent largely on foot. Without a car, he walked the notoriously un-walkable city daily, plotting routes on a map the night before, reading the city through whatever it offered, which, most consistently, were street numbers — the smallest, most indifferent facts a city produces. Throughout 2025, Kristopher photographed nearly every street address sign along Wilshire Boulevard, assembling a continuous horizontal sequence that runs numerically from east to west.
200 x 260 mm. 124 p. English. Swiss Bound Softcover. First Edition: 100. ISBN: 979-8-9953235-0-1.