the drawer

It's not like as if nothing as been going on around here. Obviously life continues, much as it's been in the past. The modern need to chronicle and broadcast every move is probably at an all time low. Well, that low must be in the near past, because here I am writing about some dank recess.

Several weeks ago I happend to glance at some notes from months ago. At the top of the list of things to work on, was an idea that began last summer, and the slightest periphery of it was glimpsed. Now I'm some ways into it, but as usual have no real idea where I'm headed with it. One step at a time, I set up the pictures and see what comes of it. Still working with 4 x 5 film, I find myself working on a composition, exposing one or two sheets of film, then stopping to take those exposures to the lab and see results prior to tearing apart the composition and moving on to something else. I'm obviously in no hurry, to find out where I'm headed, or to see the exposures.

It's not necessarily my intent to be as vague as possible. I guess it comes naturally...

...the contents of my drawer, a collection of odds & ends over some 20+ years with no discernable reason for their retention, other than they're too real to dispose of. The use of lights and an interior working environment has been a big change from the usual landscape work of the past. Here I'm creating small interior landscapes.

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