It has been put encapsulated. Its shape is such that it cannot be distinguished from a fake. It is an organ, an instrument and a location, a part of my body. It is geography as being something at hand and visible as a place in the movement of my background, in which I take part without reaching it. I reach the shadow of its ghost-like movement. It is the image of the movement as an appendage of my body.

As a visible object it stops to be a handshake of solid, protective mechanics. Hidden though it is, it remains visible. It reveals itself as a shadow - like image. It is a shadow machine of the body and its shadow and of the shadow and its body. It is a shadow prosthesis of the body and a body prosthesis of the shadow. When I write it on my hand, it is a phantom hand, which is not essentially the hand of the shadow, nor the hand of the body, but the hand of the machine which acts as my shadow-like position.

Its geography is shadowless science of phantom-like places. It is friction of transitional spaces as bodyless touch. The phantom flies inside the machine. It is a vacuum that seems like a plenum. It is a narrow throat which I use. Who moves my shadow, when I'm not moving it. Who operates the machine, when I'm not present. Has anybody seen my phantom. Has it already escaped. What is it, a cyborg or what?

Pekka Luhta (Finland) Pekka is a performance artist, photographer and painter. Recent performances include festivals in Poland and Belarus. He is well known in Helsinki as a television personality from the TuttuJuttu Show.