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Winter screen

Approx. 12″ x 6″

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Dabbling again...

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I dreamt of a fence

That was neither barrier nor boundary

A fence incapable of fencing in

Open

Nomadic

Poetic

A fence with no purpose at all

Mixed media: rusted posts, string, teabags, asemic writing

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I remember when we were kids and my little brother woke us all up in the middle of the night with a nightmare he couldn’t shake. Flailing in full panic, shouting and crying, he thought he was upside down and couldn’t right himself.

Time and space are fluid, as are situations, and sexuality.

We can’t step into the same stream twice, of consciousness or otherwise, but we can step into a puddle again and again…until it dries up, of course. We can dive into the sea, or into the sky. Even disoriented, it only matters which end is up.

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Photographers usually want some details in the shadow areas of their images to add interest, and in post production — the darkroom, Photoshop — they can isolate them and coax them out.

For half my adult life, for reasons I only partially understand, I was drawn to the darkness. Well, not the darkness of cruelty, but to those shadows, the lure of what lay beneath. And maybe, like my eyes, I adjusted to the dark over time.

Now I find more interest in the light, the warm glow of partnership, companionship, love without resistance or struggle, clean living. Except for dark chocolate.

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