| These images are part of
a piece I created in one of my photography studios by projecting typography
onto my model. The text appears both on the images of the figure and in
the finished book in separate text windows mingled with the pictures; all
are printed on translucent vellum. The book which I titled 'the book of
half' refers to the plight of two lovers separated by an ocean, struggling
with forgetting each other and the ways that they hold on to their memories.
This happened to be my own story at the time. The entire text follows,
although in the book it does not follow in a linear fashion:
-the book of half-
my sleeping eye still knows
your face
it is when I sleep
that you come to me quiet
in the dark and smiling
strange lives unfold around
us, these dreams
the still way his mind remembers
her
what is the truth of her
face
photographs do not remember
everything
empty hands holding each
other
you come to me on winds
which the day brings
is it so important to know
your skin and your lips
the color of your eyes
forgive me for what is forgotten |
