Monday, August 3, 2009

The Brooklyn—Walla Walla Express

While moving out to the west coast from Brooklyn, after having lived there for nearly 15 years, I found myself experiencing an interminable series of interactions between Leaving and Arriving that gave me some awareness of the present moment, every moment. Each step of the way, I left, I arrived: Brooklyn, New London, Columbia County, Bloomsburg, Madison, Sherry, Minneapolis, Dickinson, Red Lodge, Missoula, Willowa, Walla Walla. The threads that bound me to Brooklyn pulling and stretching and gradually giving way to threads tethering me westward. The present continuously fueled by images of past and future. backward. FORWARD. ni-hao. DEATH PENALTY. cortelyou. BACK YARD WITH GARDEN. don’t block the box. DRY HEAT. natori. MICRO-BREWS. There was never a clear-cut view in any given moment of when my past with Brooklyn was succeeded by my future in Walla Walla, just a steady awareness of a tension existing in my present, evinced by a procession of images demanding to be acknowledged, refusing to be identified, complying only with their individual chronologies.





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3 comments:

Unknown said...

these images remind me of a phrase thats been swimming in my head this last year... distance between points.

Paul Baumann said...

It really snaps the notion of dichotomy into focus for me that's been there in your pairing of two images per movement. behind/before (me: the slash)



Seems like the traveling's been fruitful, the blog's a great venue for what you do methinks

Erik Hammen said...

This would make a nice, ultra minimalist book.
Did you shoot this actually on film?