In 2013, Mariëlle Videler visited a number of Amsterdam residents on three consecutive days, carrying an empty suitcase, a metronome, and a handmade 'divination book' — concertina-folded, stitched, with cut-out texts and drawings in ink and pencil. Upon arrival she read them the same lines each time: "You have 45 minutes to leave. You don't know where you're going. You don't know if you'll ever return." As they packed, searching the house for money or their passport, she followed them like a shadow. What unfolded were intimate, sometimes emotional conversations — later documented in text.

Parallel to these encounters, Videler explored the many faces of travel: the nomad, the refugee, the tourist — and the distances between them. Drawn to old photographs of travellers using blankets as makeshift bags, she designed a series of woollen blankets, built on a rectangular grid, its lines marking where each blanket folds. Within that grid she wove, at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, 27 tribal patterns gathered from around the world.

A selection of the travellers' conversations was later gathered into a publication (Dutch/English).