| Portland: Projections | ||
“prE jehk shEn noun 1. projecting, being projected. 2. thing that protrudes. 3. presentation of image(s) etc. on a surface. 4. forecast, estimate. 5. mental image viewed as objective reality. 6. transfer of feelings to other people etc.” - Oxford Paperback Dictionary
| For two months in a basement, I
lived in Portland. With me, I had my camera, a slide
projector, and hundreds of found transparencies of people and
homes, decades old, and blue with age. I spent my days in
darkness illuminated by children and families, interiors and
landscapes, events and narratives (patterns and densities)
automatically processed, cast out and lined across the cracks and
textures of foundational walls. Daydreaming, repeatedly, in
passing, these photographic remnants — summer vacations,
birthday parties, holiday dinners, reunions — I sensed my
memory shift upward, flatten out and onto my eyes. Like this,
I watched, in time, my camera, recollect everything.
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