At this very moment you have already left traces on both the cover and the first pages of this book. If you continue flipping through the pages, more will follow.

Every action leaves a trace. Even thinking leaves slightly beaten paths in your brain. The more your thoughts are using the same route, the more beaten the path, the stronger the memory.

Is it possible to trace something new or will tracing always mean that you are following in something’s or somebody’s footsteps? If you seek to get off the beaten path will you then finally be onto some- thing or will you just get lost?

Is a trace always evidence of something that has already taken place or can it be a notice that something is about to happen?

Usually when we are looking for traces it is in some kind of context -at a crime scene for example, we have a quite clear idea of what we are looking for.

Where will it lead us then, when for no apparent reason we start to deci- pher traces with no fixed idea of where they will lead us? What can our own traces tell us?

Using the human being and it’s clothing as a starting point, I have exam- ined and exposed some of the more or less consciously made traces that are an inevitable consequence of physical activity. They are the seen and unseen traces we leave on ourselves as well as the ones we leave on each other and our surroundings.

The meaning of this book is to show that inspiration can be found in our close surroundings and inside ourselves.