Long Day's Journey

Long Day's Journey is an exploration of time, space, and memory. It asks: "What is 'home'? How do our memories and the speed at which we move through life shape us? From what do we derive our identity? Is our memory trustworthy? Can we ever, in this long day's journey, see clearly where we have been and what we have become?

I am revisiting places and memories from my past from the vantage point of passer by. Sometimes it is from a speeding train, car or plane, both part of and left out of what I see. Fleeting intimacies through windows are shaped by the speed at which I travel: some clear, some slippery and hard to pin down. Some are truly abstract. As in my earlier work this series draws on the strength of multiple images. I believe that we can never fully understand the totality of a time, person or place, but we have a better chance if the story is shown or told over the course of the space and time of many, not one.

These images evoke the clicking of old movie film. I hear the clicking of the train on its tracks and perhaps the ticking of time. What I do know is that, no matter how fleeting the connection between me and the subject I am compelled to photograph, that second story bedroom, isolated pond, receding harbor will now always exist as it did for that moment. So, while I will never know what transpires in that bedroom or where that lonely car is going, I am left to "cross to safety"* with what I can picture.

* I Could Give All to Time, Robert Frost

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