In 2005, Lay started travelling to countries in Northern Europe, visiting Finland, Sweden, Norway
and Scotland with a constant impression of being surrounded by familiar settings, close to her own universe
and at the same time being thrown into a strangely extraordinary world.
This series is a
subtle mix of urban portraits, found objects and landscapes produced during short stays in northern cities,
each title containing only the name of the city where the image was shot.
Working fairly
quickly, Lay stayed in each city for no more than 10 days, photographing passers-by as if they were actors
on a film set, the landscape become a backdrop to a narrative fiction, establishing intangible connections
between the various cities and their inhabitants. Nothing connects the cities traversed; only the images
that constructs a fictitious link between them.