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Old Notes

Unnamed Forty Eight — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) A couple days ago I reviewed some project notes from ten years ago which brought me right back to how I felt at the time - confused and struggling. I sat and calmed myself because it really put me back in the old mindset ...
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Barriers

Unnamed Forty Seven — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) Just had a great conversation with another artist and in it mentioned the idea of self erected barriers. I confess, I am the king of barriers - if there is such a thing as a kingdom for this behavior. I too readily erect internal ...
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Unexpected Results

Unnamed Forty Six — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) Working intuitively and iteratively will often lead down a rabbit hole I hadn't considered but will also result in something I take for granted in a - well that result makes sense kind of way. But when someone else marvels at this result I'm ...
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Emotional Motivation

Unnamed Forty Five — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) A couple days ago, I reconsidered how I see the world completely differently from other people - it seems like the only logical explanation. When we think of someone - visualize them in our minds, it's not a snapshot in time, instead we've constructed ...
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Filter

Unnamed Forty Four — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) When I photographed with film there was a disconnect between when I made the image and when I made the print. I work iteratively so I update and revise my idea trying new things on the fly as I shoot ... and then I ...
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Exploring A New Branch

Unnamed Forty Three — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) Looks like I'm finding a another branch off the trunk to explore in the Sidelong Series - one that's colorful and saturated this time - sometimes possibly recognizable yet dreamlike. This happens when my interpretation of the raw material shifts - when I see ...
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Stream of Time

Unnamed Forty Two — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) The more I think about the work I make, the more I realize scale is a factor. Not in the size but rather in the relationship between the moment and the stream of time. The images I make all have a long duration, to capture ...
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The Performance

Unnamed Forty One — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) When I first began to seriously shoot black and white in University, my parents gave me the three Ansel Adams books - The Camera, The Negative and The Print. In them Ansel says something like the negative is the musical score and the print ...
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Something Interesting

Unnamed Forty — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) There's an element of chance or accident to what I do that I welcome and embrace. I'll have an idea for a project and work out the parameters and methodology to execute it, but during the execution I'm open to chance and accidental happenings that might ...
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Shadows On Our Eyes

Unnamed Thirty Nine — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) As with all the other things I do, when I make images I don't think too much while I do it - or maybe I adopt a benign neglect as I perform it and perhaps that helps the images work out. The problems begin, ...
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Memory – Of The Moment

Unnamed Thirty Eight — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) I find it really difficult to keep my perspective - I'm perpetually in the moment, so it's really difficult to see growth and change. It's good to be in the moment for creativity but it leads me to despair when I can't see improvement - ...
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