The Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque NM has a wonderful program where "Printers in Training" work with younger artists in a collaborative effort. I was lucky enough to work with Paul Rangell among others, and I explored some avenues that I know made Paul and some others scratch their head but true to the collaborative model that the Tamarind Institute is built upon, they excelled in helping me execute my ideas. I had just finished an MA degree from the University of New Mexico and had produced a series of photographs that I needed to take a break from. My premise in these prints was that they would accomplish a function regardless of form...a kind of backwards theory of beauty....conceptual but still paying a kind of gyro gearloose attitude to creating a unique form while inventorying some ideas about the relationship of violence on a generational scale, and photography's participation  as witness. The last of the four prints was purposefully titled "Momento Mori" not memento mori, a death, certainly, but in this century, it seemed the death of time, and in my estimation, photography's resulting problems.