Tickety-Boo is a block of a book with more than two hundred
images edited from smart phone photographs taken during
Charles H. Traub's everyday ramblings over the last four
years. The English expression tickety-boo loosely translates
'Everything is okay, but maybe everything isn't!' Therein lies
the enigmatic crux of the images contained in the book. The
smart phone is an ingenious companion that readily makes a
photographic response by Traub quick and unobtrusive - a
third eye, if you will. A stream of consciousness flows in his
response to places, things, and people that catch his eclectic
whimsy. His subjects are ambiguous and out of context,
yet once organized together within this book, create a kind
of pictorial completeness, both soothing and disquieting.
The photographs in each spread vividly amplify each other
leading the viewer to the next sequence. The mundane
becomes animated, and in the end, this is a book about the
delirious conditions of our time.