TIMEBLIND

I have an unusual relationship with time. Rather than linear, time’s order is dictated by intensity of memory. The more interesting something is the more present it is. Boring or uninteresting things have always been forever ago. Apparently this is time blindness. It comes in as generalized hyper-awareness of all things sensory. Easily maddening in modern America and its economy based on distraction. In 2014 I found relief shooting experimental landscapes on the high desert roads of the American West. Not for publication, just for me. But on a cross country train trip in 2017, in Eastern Colorado as mountains became plains, a combination of careful camera movement and intentional blur created an image that seemed to portray past, present, and future all at the same time. Time, as I see it. For me these photographs are a perspective on the natural world not through a singular perception of the present, but within the context of the infinitely subjective human experience that is the passage of time. Traces of the past, a glimpse of the present, and expectation of the future, all collapsed into single frames of now. I hope these do for your soul what they do for mine.