"I have been charmed in the most unlikely places" is an ongoing series of publications, first published in 1996. The series focuses on the question how specific identities of places are developed. Every single issue of "I have been charmed in the most unlikely places" concentrates on a different place. On a small scale, situations are analysed and equipped with appropriate visual interventions, catered to the visitor or user of that specific space. "I have been charmed in the most unlikely places" is a visual attempt to make an improvised statement in response to the claim of nations and places as cultural properties. Culture is a transforming entity and cannot be geographically determined.

The main part of the series exists of printed matter. The method of distribution is an important element of its content. Issues 1, 3, 5 and 7 were produced for involuntarily subscribers, mainly friends, and people I respect as professionals. Issues 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 15 were made as contribution to various magazines. Number 5 was a flyer handed out to passers-by in marketplaces. In number 6 private addresses of family and friends were introduced as distribution points, thus linking subscribers to family and friends.

Andrew Renton, writer and art-critic wrote the sentence "I have been charmed in the most unlikely places", in 1996. Only recently I coincidentally got in contact with him. He reacted as follows when I told him I based the title of a series of publications on a sentence he once wrote: "From time to time there are moments when one's words return like half-forgotten acquaintances from another life. I have the vaguest memory of saying such a thing, but it will take some serious rummaging around to find when & where it was originally said. But it does --for better or worse-- sound like something I might have said."