In the afternoon my studio gets dark way too fast. In the summer time I blame it on the trees that we have let grow up to close to the building, but in the winter the fault can only fall on the short days. Warren and I have been working on our 2018 calendar. I have been looking back through our photographs aiming to balance the spare aesthetic I feel in December with the memory of the lush summer. I look back to navigate future images, contemplating how to carry light forward, reminding me to stare more closely at material and its potential for expression.
"You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of
helping people navigate toward the future. We need a litany, a rosary, a
sutra, a mantra, a war chant for our victories. The past is set in
daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is
the future."
"You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of
helping people navigate toward the future. We need a litany, a rosary, a
sutra, a mantra, a war chant for our victories. The past is set in
daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is
the future."--Rebecca Solnit - from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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