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I'm making 4 x 6 inch prints of these relatively unspectacular images made over many years and letting them sit on my dining room work table. They start to lose depth, flatten into the picture plane, and flow together in graphic and formal ways. I sort and reposition them as meanings emerge. I tape them together when a sense of resolve emerges and enjoy pondering the results. I'm not sure this concatenation exercise is going anywhere, but it intrigues me. 

The exhibition of collage and assemblage at Mia inspired me. One of its wall didactics referred to "non-hierarchical arrangements of visual information." This is characteristic of the individual images themselves; I find all elements of the photograph to have relatively equal value. They are centrifugal, pushing outward to the edges of the frame, instead of centripetal, inward-focused, as you experience in a portrait. My interest is in the scene, not the subject.