Downtown Layered Life, Art Deco, Things I Love.
Doors opened or closed, in or out, life’s that pass through a moment in time a short story you compose, Doors. enjoy pjc
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Watching Being Watched New London 2002
Back in a retrospective mood today from the Layered Life series sort of, I also shoot a lot of signs neon. During this session I wanted my model tougher more present, lots of images in this series are made to look like the subject is from 1800’s contrasted with the modern. Working on some portraits sitting on the stair the man stepped to the window and the image was complete. Click an image made [in the old day’s we used to make negatives-images] today everything is captured. Personally I prefer making images whether it is with film like this or digital. Making an image just sounds better than capturing. enjoy pjc
The man in the window at Ernie’s approved this image. I brought him a print and bought him a beer. Sitting at the bar he with his beer me a diet coke we spoke of Art and life. A moment from a life Fall 2002 memory of this moment Today August 25 2019
Norwich, Three Cities
Norwich
I’ve been in Norwich for 5 plus years and watched as downtown has changed. There were up time and down times. This image is of a fire escape on The Alice a restored building on Main Street. Empty for the first 4 years it now is active with tenants. I often am accused of having a negative outlook. [no pun intended] As I look at this building some days I feel the stairs are going up sometimes down. This is the second old struggling City for me in the last twelve years the first produced a book. What Norwich will yield is still on the stairs unsure of whether the stairs are going up or down. Which way do you see the stairway going?
Willimantic
Many walks many fine destinations or just walks. A first book solidifying direction.
Brattleboro alluring on so many levels
Brattleboro oh how I loved you from afar sunny warm afternoons occasional morning light I was tempted but you had a cold side that my body and soul could not abide. Image thoughts added 2-28-16 as I edit images.
Willimantic, Norwich, Brattleboro, The first two I’ve lived in and worked on the “arts” led revitalization. Brattlboro is that the next stop? As a frequent visitor since mid summer I have been documenting my visits or a better way of putting it is I have been creating self portraits of a small city. Self portraits of the way I want to see America and the world heading. I’ll be back in Brattlboro again tomorrow looking for America, and that dream that I learned in school as a kid.
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