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the world as we knew it, 2
“The trouble with normal is it always get worse” – a Bruce Cockburn lyric, written in 1981.
“Each time we allow ourselves to get used to some new ugliness, we set the stage for something worse. It wasn’t hard, even back then, to see what was coming.” – a Bruce Cockburn comment on that lyric, from 2001.
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.28.2022
the world as we knew it, 1
I’m coming off a year of personal loss. I can see that the universe is filling in those gaps, in some unexpected ways, in some ways that are delightful, in some ways that matter both personally and professionally. And that makes it feel like I’ll get through it and be a better person than I would have been.
But there are other things, politics most particularly, that are leaving me reeling, that make me sad and frightened, and unsettled.
This photo, one of my experimental intentional camera movement shots, represents the way I feel. Things I understood and that I thought were unchangeable are shifting, changing, disappearing, becoming almost unrecognizable.
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.28.2022
waves, abstract
A little more ICM, a technique that’s about as far from my usual documentary style as I think I can get.
It is a nice change, though, to blur reality; lately reality seems like it could benefit from being blurred and my own mental health will in turn (perhaps) benefit from blurry reality.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.19.2022
less literal than usual
angel with broken wings
I can’t go to Santa Rosa without stopping at this old cemetery, with its roofless, falling down church ruins. I like the way a now-gone bush scratched wind-driven arcs into the wall. I like the way the a little more of the stucco has let go of the adobe walls every time I go by. But mostly I like the broken-winged angel, who is watching the slow-motion collapse of the building.
And I also like this song by Los Lobos. In case you were wondering.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.28.2022
One Day | One Image 