Charles H. Traub: Tickety-Boo

Tickety-Boo is a block of a book with more than two hundredimages edited from smart phone photographs taken duringCharles H. Traub’s everyday ramblings over the last fouryears. The English expression tickety-boo loosely translates''Everything is okay, but maybe everything isn''t!'' Therein liesthe enigmatic crux of the images contained in the book. Thesmart phone is an ingenious companion that readily makes aphotographic response by Traub quick and unobtrusive – athird eye, if you will. A stream of consciousness flows in hisresponse to places, things, and people that catch his eclecticwhimsy. His subjects are ambiguous and out of context,yet once organized together within this book, create a kindof pictorial completeness, both soothing and disquieting.The photographs in each spread vividly amplify each otherleading the viewer to the next sequence. The mundanebecomes animated, and in the end, this is a book about thedelirious conditions of our time.