June 23, 2003
Places and time.... It's all about the place you are at and the timing. Could I look at my life as I do my pictures... but in one big mural... one big family portrait. My pictures accumulate up on my shelf, gathering dust.... waiting to be opened again to release the stories that were once there. Ready to tell the tale of our past and give that instant of where we were at that moment in our lives. Single, lonely, transitioning, job hunting, looking for love, or just content. A story to be told of each of us at a different time.
Your friends, as they are now, could have been different a year ago...6 months....5 minutes....and you don't even know.... you don't want to know. The cubes are changing colors. Where are the people I know at now... are they at their best... or their worst... or are they somewhere and I am just in the same place with them. Same situations, same lives, different times....
I want to be able to close my eyes and imagine a world where everyone could fit in together at that right instant. All the people in one room with no complications. Past and currents colliding ..with the futures just being introduced.... A time where you hung out with people day in day out ...before things start to drift... Finding out everything about someone before the routine... the long look before you realize that it was impossible.... Friends from the past back in... again... The love before the hate.... Rewind, Fast Forward, PAUSE.....
So I see change, I see the pictures, I see the perfect instant that I wish everyone was in. A time I can look and see happiness. Smiles that needs no expression. This is my one room.... A page full of cut out pictures, faces, glued together in absence of time, but held together by the moment....
If only here......