*Of interest to artists and others engaged in: artist novels, relational, participatory and community art, people interested in social practice and socially engaged art, people interested in relational art, people interested in art on a communal level, emerging artists in these fields, anthropologists interested in the generational gap between generations, ecologists interested in the intersection of community and environment, people with a German/American background or an interest in either or, immigrants or emigrants in general who juggle "new" and "old" identities, immigrants and emigrants who juggle between two cultural contexts, people who have grown up in a rural context and are spending their adult lives in a big city, people who like to read travel literature, people who like to read about explorers.*Hajoe is the program Director of the DIAP program at The City College, NY*Both hold MFAs in Fine Arts from Bauhaus University.*Both authors have been artists in residence separately and together at many prestigious residency programs i.e. Academy of Visual Art Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, MacDowell Colony, *Prizes, Fellowships and Awards: Creative Capital Grant, The Fence Modern Prize in Prose, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, NYSCA Artist Grants*Themes: land, land use, rural communities, stereotypes, physical labor vs. conceptual/intellectual work, city vs. village, Germany and America, the immigrant's experience in the new country and returning "home", gardening and growing, aging, home, borders, time and speed, vehicles to travel, worlds of traveling, value, idle time and preoccupation, the role of others (otherness), role-playing, projections, perceived realities, the weather, water, provisions, service, tradition, heritage, communication and mis-communication, etc