| The faces are about ideas of strength, of story, of a life lived, the attitude of the moment.A life that is moving toward each face at a pace that is human. I am interested in the short story that a face will tell. A narrative that is complete as well as to be continued. The portraits are a practice in the coming to know a person in all of their self that they allow to be see through their face. The imagined space in the portrait is as imagined as the portraits themselves. They are not 'real' people. The endeavor is to make a portrait of the person I have seen or known and to place, implicit in the image, the story they might tell about themselves. The portraits are singular and as a group a small community of 'people'. Not unlike the people we work with, there is a categorization of one another both by those around and ourselves in order to manage, to understand the story of one another. |
