JAzzmine Berger - interview #4

Jazzmine or Jazz was an interview subject that found me. I was sitting in my study one afternoon and started to notice a precession of beautiful wicker furniture being marched past my window in the street outside. From my seat, and considering the hight of the window, the chairs seemed to be marching unassisted. This filled my short attention span with a bouquet of pressing questions. Who was the owner of such a prolific collection of wicker furniture and where was it going. This was the first of many sightings (from my office window). Jazz is a mysterious neighbour. One day a train of wicker chairs the next a femme fatal leather skirt, dark glasses and a pram (it was a while before I could confirm the pram was caring a child). My imagination unavoidably started to fill in the blanks.
In the end her agency put an end to my spying when they sent me her portfolio and asked for a go see to which I casually accepted. Of course when we met she immedialty replaced her mysterious outward appearance with a warm, easy to like, personality. I suggested the interview project to her and she lit up immediately. A chance to dress up in fictional characters that somehow and mostly vaguely had some meaning to her life at this moment. I realised, of course, that the only change was that now that I had arrived with my camera there was someone to take pictures of a role play that was essentially a daily occurrence. We had a lengthy conversation and although we spoke about many things (in her Swedish/French/American accent) it somehow always came back to the opportunity to play “dress up” with her neighbour.