The Distance of Forgetting

It's so easy to follow the dotted line, looking... for what's on your list but I find that it's when I forget where I was going that I find what I was really meant to be doing Sometimes I drive the wrong (?) way and see a beautiful house or tree, sometimes I find a yard sale with really neat treasures other times it’s a friend I haven’t seen in far too long Photography isn’t where I was going, yet it found me twenty-five short-long years ago: buildings people dogs kids shoes flowers death love tears glee my kid her friends my friends lovers husbands sorrow trees bugs sidewalks And then I found me. What better way to speak my truth to the world than by making art with myself as the subject? To me, good art is personal it tells you things you didn't want to ask or even know, sometimes It questions you because you need it to I can tell someone to tilt their head or stand there, to look inquisitive but I can't get inside their head, to know the questions that need to be asked and they can’t know which answers to give me Perhaps if I was less shy it would be different but then I wouldn’t be me and I’m pretty happy here This work is about listening to myself it's about seeing the world in ways I haven’t this go-round The Distance of Forgetting came to me one day it felt right intuitively like much of what I do I didn't know why until later it's about the space/time that I need between the rigidity of knowing where I am going and the fluidity of the just maybes that are always just around the corner I hope you find your questions when you are looking at my work The answers are easy but the real knowledge in life comes from finding the questions and then more questions These pieces are all one of a kind. The alternative processes used in my work lets me answer new questions each time I am in the darkroom. It makes me endlessly happy to handcraft these photos, using methods that have been around far longer than me. It's technology, and it's old, and has plenty of style. No one mistake is going to take down the Western Hemisphere, there is a lot of freedom in that knowledge.