While I like to explore different materials and processes, the work has remained remarkably constant in its themes…photography as a way of interacting…a way of trying to work out just what it is you know or believe about the world; documents about places or moments that seemed nearly transcendent, photographs about people you love or places that matter…photography as part of a personal history. A year or two before this work started, I was making Van Dyke prints which made use of what I called extended captioning, and that use of disjointed narrative carried through these. I was influenced more and more by philosopher Stanley Cavell's writings, and the images hinted at the narrative, and the narrative may have referenced  the images…but the results became a more complex dialogue…once again, between several voices, between nature and culture. The difference between these and the Van Dyke prints was more than that these had color and were printed by a then state of the art IRIS printer. In this work I had turned a corner, no longer finding myself between the present and the past, but as Cavell described it, "between memory and a hope for the future."