I planned to begin with a single gift — possibly an inflatable globe — and to offer it to someone in the small South African village of L'Agulhas, inviting the person to offer me something else in return, while documenting the exchange with a simple set of photos. Then, over the course of the next year, I planned to travel up through Africa, across the Middle East, to the southern tip of India, across Nepal and Tibet, and to the far northeastern corner of Shuangyashan, China — exchanging gifts along the way.