We are not who we think we are when we are elsewhere

“We are not who we think we are when we are elsewhere. We can even become another person entirely. Who will ever know? Traveling can be a kind of performance piece. We can tell our airplane seatmate or one-night stand almost anything. We can reinvent ourselves instead of our surroundings. We can surprise ourselves as well as of being surprised.”
–Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track (1998)